Painted Shadow: A Life of Vivienne Eliot (2001)

by Carole Seymour-Jones

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Vivienne Eliot was committed to an asylum in 1938, five years after T.S. Eliot deserted her. This biography of Vivienne Eliot looks at their troubled marriage and at how it was to provide the inspiration for 'The Waste Land'.

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brucesager | Nov 1, 2007 |

This book changed my opinions of T.S. Eliot and Bertrand Russell. Ms Seymour Jones gives us a point of view and perspective from Eliot's wife Vivienne and "how this sponataneous, loving, but fragile woman was trapped and ultimately destroyed by a disatrous marriage. Also, it shows a side of Bertrand Russell I was not aware of. (

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Painted shadow : a life of Vivienne Eliot

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2001

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A restless shivering painted shadow
In life, she is less than a shadow in death.

-T S Eliot, 'The family reunion., 1938

"Dearest Ottoline...The truth willall come out, if not in our life - then after it."

-Vivienne Haigh Eliot to Lady Ottoline Morrell, 13 December 1933

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In memory of my brother, Nick Seymour-Jones, 1947-2000

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"Posterity will probably judge Vivienne harshly," wrote Herbert Read in 1967, and so it has proved.

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Vivienne Eliot was committed to an asylum in 1938, five years after T.S. Eliot deserted her. This biography of Vivienne Eliot looks at their troubled marriage and at how it was to provide the inspiration for 'The Waste Land'.

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