Painted Shadow The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T. S. Eliot

Name: Painted Shadow The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T. S. Eliot
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ISBN: 9780385499934

ISBN-10: 0385499930

ISBN-13: 9780385499934

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Authors: Carole Seymour-Jones

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By the time Vivienne Eliot was committed to an asylum for what would be the final nine years of her life, she had been abandoned by her husband T.S. Eliot and shunned by literary London. Yet Vivienne was neither insane nor insignificant. She generously collaborated in her husband’s literary efforts, taking dictation, editing his drafts, and writing articles for his magazine, Criterion. Her distinctive voice can be heard in his poetry. And paradoxically, it was the unhappiness of the Eliots’ marriage that inspired some of the poet’s most distinguished work, from The Family Reunion to The Waste Land. This first biography ever written about Vivienne draws on hundreds of previously unpublished…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/14/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 736
Size: 5.16" wide x 8.02" long x 1.43" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English

Carole Seymour-Jones was born in Towyn, North Wales and educated at Oxford and Sussex Universities. Her recent biography Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize. She lives with her partner in Surrey and London.