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Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot (also Vivien, born Vivienne Haigh; 28 May 1888 – 22 January 1947) was the first wife of American-British poet T. S. Eliot, whom she married in 1915, less than three months after their introduction by mutual friends, when Vivienne was a governess in Cambridge and Eliot was studying at Oxford.
Vivien Haigh-Wood met Eliot, her junior by four months, in March 1915, when he was a postgraduate at Oxford studying philosophy. They were swiftly married on 26 June 1915.
Sep 22, 2002 · Eliot was twenty-six and, almost certainly, a frustrated virgin when, in 1915, he married Vivienne Haigh-Wood, an Englishwoman he had known for three months. Haigh-Wood was a medically and...
Vivien(ne) Eliot, née Haigh-Wood (1888–1947): T. S. Eliot’s first wife. Born in Bury, Lancashire, on 28 May 1888, ‘Vivy’ was brought up from the age of three in Hampstead.
Aug 9, 2016 · Subjectivity in the Diaries of Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot. By Harriet Staff. At London Review of Books, Mary-Kay Wilmers gives an account of working at Faber & Faber, where T.S. Eliot was once an editor. Wilmers recalls hearing stories of Eliot's wife, Vivien: [Vivien] was no longer alive in my day – she died in a mental hospital in 1947.
Dec 5, 2020 · On January 22, 1947, Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot died, of heart failure, at Northumberland House, the mental hospital where she had been confined for almost a decade. She was fifty-eight...
Apr 12, 2012 · T.S. Eliot's first wife Vivien Haigh-Wood suffered from a severe hormonal illness that required constant medical treatment, exacerbating an already hysterical nature.
