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44: 399: 209: 1379: 196:, which remains Eliot's most noted work. He consulted with Vivienne, refusing to release a section of the poem until she had approved it. Eliot later said: 'To her the marriage brought no happiness ... to me it brought the state of mind out of which came The Waste Land.' Research into their relationship has been hampered by lack of access to her diaries, the copyright of which was granted to Eliot's widow 234:. Charles was local to the area, but his wife was born in London where the couple had been living, and they had returned to Bury for an exhibition of Charles's paintings at a gentleman's club, with Rose Esther heavily pregnant. The journey may have triggered the birth earlier than expected, and Haigh-Wood was born in Lancashire rather than London. 734: 386:
actress. Impressed by her apparently wealthy background, the artist father and the brother at Sandhurst, he failed to realise that, within the rigid English class system, Haigh-Wood was no match for his New England background or for the English aristocrats with whom he had surrounded himself. A few of his friends, including
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The couple were married after three months, on 26 June 1915, at Hampstead Register Office in London, with Lucy Ely Thayer (Scofield's sister) and Haigh-Wood's aunt, Lillia C. Symes, as witnesses. Eliot signed "no occupation" on the certificate and described his father as a brick manufacturer. Neither
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Vivienne had many serious health problems, beginning with tuberculosis of the arm as a child, and the marriage appeared to exacerbate her mental health issues. Husband Eliot would not consider divorce, but formally separated from Vivienne in 1933. She was later committed to an asylum by her brother,
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that Eliot regarded women the way he regarded Jews, seeing both as responsible for irrationality and romanticism. He was uneasy with female sexuality – which led Seymour-Jones to suspect he was homosexual – which manifested itself both in his poetry and in his attitude toward Haigh-Wood's
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Oh – Vivienne! Was there ever such a torture since life began! – to bear her on one's shoulders, biting, wriggling, raving, scratching, unwholesome, powdered, insane, yet sane to the point of insanity, reading his letters, thrusting herself on us, coming in wavering trembling ... This bag
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writes that Eliot was jolted to life by Haigh-Wood. He was a repressed, shy, 26-year-old who was bored in Oxford, writing of it that it was very pretty, "but I don't like to be dead." She was flamboyant, a great dancer, spoke her mind, smoked in public, dressed in bold colours and looked like an
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Charles Haigh-Wood inherited his mother's property when she died, as well as the family home at 14 Albion Place, Walmersley Road, Bury, and he became a landlord, which allowed him to move his wife and Vivienne to Hampstead, a fashionable part of north London. They settled into a house there at 3
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had encouraged Vivienne to marry Eliot as a pretext for the poet to remain in England, where Eliot and Pound believed he would have greater career success, but also against the wishes of his family who wanted him to return to the United States. Neither set of parents were informed of the wedding
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Eliot arranged for a formal separation in February 1933 and thereafter shunned Haigh-Wood entirely, hiding from her and instructing his friends not to tell her where he was. She could not accept the end of the relationship. Her efforts to find him appeared to his friends to confirm that she was
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She was registered at birth as Vivienne Haigh, though as an adult she called herself Haigh-Wood, and later spelt her first name Vivien. Her paternal grandfather was Charles Wood, a gilder and picture framer from Bolton, so her father called himself Charles Haigh-Wood to distinguish himself. The
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against her will, eventually dying there apparently from a heart attack, but possibly by deliberate overdose. When told via a phone call from the asylum that Vivienne had died unexpectedly during the night, Eliot is said to have buried his face in his hands and cried out 'Oh God, oh God.'
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I think at first, until one has got the spout of this long disused fountain clear, it is better to let the water burst out when it will and so force away the accumulation of decayed vegetation, moss, slime and dead fish which are thick upon and around it.
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Little is known of her education. Vivienne played the piano, painted, took ballet lessons, was a good swimmer, and worked for a short time as a governess for a family in Cambridge. She had multiple health problems. She was diagnosed with
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beforehand. Vivienne made creative contributions to her husband's work during their 18-year marriage, but it was a difficult relationship. Both had mental and physical health problems, and it is often cited as the inspiration for
645:, Seymour-Jones writes that Eliot first saw Haigh-Wood while she was punting in Oxford, and was first introduced to her at a lunch party held by Scofield Thayer in Magdalen College in or around March 1914. 319:. She became engaged to a schoolteacher, Charles Buckle, in 1914, but Buckle's mother was apparently unhappy about it. Vivienne's health problems persuaded Rose Haigh-Wood that her daughter had " 379:. Seymour-Jones writes that Oxford attracted young women visitors, or "river girls", who would come in search of eligible husbands; women were not allowed to take degrees at Oxford until 1920. 315:
As the medical bills rose, so did her family's resentment of her. Her brother, Maurice, blamed her for what he saw as his second-rate education, because there was no money left to send him to
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Eliot was in Oxford for one year only, and was expected to return to Harvard to begin a career as an academic philosopher, an idea he railed against. He wanted to be a poet. He had completed
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high in my arms. Polly was very excited & wild. I kept my eyes on Tom's face the whole time, & I kept nodding my head at him, & making encouraging signs. He looked a
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Haigh-Wood met Tom Eliot on or around March 1915 at a dance in London, where he took tea with her and a friend. They met again shortly after that at a lunch party in
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in 1911, the poem that was to make his name when it was published in Chicago in 1915, and he saw remaining in England as a way to escape his parents' plans for him.
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As he signed copies of the books for her, she asked him, "Will you come back with me?" and he replied, "I cannot talk to you now," then left with someone else.
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had persuaded him that the pursuit of poetry was possible, and marrying Haigh-Wood meant he could stay in England and avoid Harvard. Eliot told a friend,
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in the way Eliot regarded Haigh-Wood. He wrote to a friend that Haigh-Wood had "an original mind, and I consider not at all a feminine one."
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backgrounds, had been at Harvard together, where Eliot had studied philosophy, and both had arrived in Oxford on scholarships.
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I turned a face to him of such joy that no-one in that great crowd could have had one moment's doubt. I just said, Oh
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When he was in his 60s, Eliot wrote that he had been immature and timid at the time, and probably in love with
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Compayne Gardens around 1891. Vivienne's brother, Maurice, was born there in 1896; he went on to train at
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writes that they first met in London in March 1914 at a party in a hotel, as does James Edwin Miller. In
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Carole Seymour-Jones, one of Haigh-Wood's biographers, argues that there was a strong streak of
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and said she had had so many operations, she had no memory of her life before the age of seven.
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body. Menand writes that Eliot's work is replete with oversexed women, whom he saw as modern
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older, more mature & smart, much thinner & not well or robust or rumbustious at
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Vivienne was committed to the Northumberland House mental hospital in Woodberry Down,
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of the bone in her left arm when she was a child; this was before the discovery of
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writes that it was out of the turmoil of the marriage that Eliot produced
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and apparently little could be done about it. She was treated by Sir
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uniform, black beret and black cape. She wrote in her diary:
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The last time she saw him was on 18 November 1935 at a
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to sedate her, which probably meant he had diagnosed "
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Photograph from Haigh-Wood's American passport, 1920
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described Vivienne on 8 November 1930 in her diary:
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Index

Vivienne Haigh-Wood
photograph
Lady Ottoline Morrell
Bury, Lancashire
Harringay
Pinner
London
T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
Oxford
Ezra Pound
The Waste Land
Valerie Eliot

Bury, Lancashire
née

Royal Academy of Arts
Dún Laoghaire
Royal Academy Schools
Sandhurst
First World War
tuberculosis
antibiotics
Frederick Treves
menstruation
pre-menstrual tension
migraines
potassium bromide
hysteria

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