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Emily Hale (October 27, 1891 – October 12, 1969) was an American speech and drama teacher, who was the longtime muse and confidante of the poet T. S. Eliot. There were 1,131 letters from Eliot to Hale deposited in Princeton University Library in 1956, described as one of the best-known sealed archives in the world for many years.
Dec 13, 2020 · Who was Emily Hale? What have these letters revealed about her relationship with Eliot? Emily Hale was an American speech and drama teacher who worked at Simmons, Scripps, and Smith colleges.
Dec 5, 2020 · Michelle Taylor writes about Emily Hale, who for many years was the muse of the poet T. S. Eliot and whose correspondence with Eliot, which Hale donated to Princeton University in 1956, became...
Jan 6, 2020 · In 1960, T.S. Eliot penned a blistering statement about Emily Hale, a woman he’d fallen in love with decades earlier. The writer knew that Hale had given a collection of his letters to...
This is a digital edition, free-to-access, of the complete surviving correspondence between T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) and Emily Hale (1891–1969) – the 1,131 letters that Eliot sent to Hale between 1930 and 1957 (deposited at Princeton University Library, they were embargoed until 2020) – together with a number of important additional ...
1921–29 – Beginning in the autumn of 1921, Emily Hale works as an administrator and tutor of vocal expression at Milwaukee-Downer College, a pioneering women’s college in the Midwest. (Founded in 1895, the college is now merged with Lawrence University.)
T he unsealing after more than 60 years of a collection of 1,131 letters written by Nobel laureate T.S. Eliot to Emily Hale, his secret platonic love, caused “the special collections equivalent of a stampede at a rock concert” on the morning of January 2 in the basement of Princeton University’s Firestone Library, according to Daniel ...
Jan 4, 2020 · Emily Hale and T.S. Eliot in a 1946 photo in Dorset, Vt. A sealed trove of Eliot’s letters to Hale has loomed large in scholars’ minds for half a century. Princeton University Library,...
Jan 21, 2020 · In early March 1957, “at the urgent request of Mr. William S. Dix” (Princeton University Librarian), educator and dramatist Emily Hale drafted a review of her relationship with poet T.S. Eliot to accompany the collection of letters she donated to the Princeton Library in 1956.
Original, intelligent, and extensively researched, Sara Fitzgerald’s biography tells the story of Emily Hale’s and T. S. Eliot’s secret relationship from Hale’s perspective. When Eliot’s letters to her were opened, they called for major rethinking of the poet’s life and work.
