Letters of T.s.eliot-v.1

Valerie Eliot née Esmé Valerie Fletcher (born August 17, 1926) is the surviving widow and second wife of the Nobel prize winning poet T. S. Eliot.She married Eliot, thirty-seven years her senior, on January 10, 1957. She is his most important editor and literary executor, having brought to press The Waste Land: Facsimile and Manuscripts of the Original Drafts (1971) and The Letters of T. S. Eliot: Volume 1, 1898-1922 (1989). She also assisted Christopher Ricks with his edition of The Inventions of the March Hare (1996), a volume of Eliot's unpublished verse. A second volume of Eliot's letters, edited by Mrs. Eliot, has been long-delayed, with much speculation but little solid information as to the reason.She donates the £15,000 annual prize money for the T. S. Eliot Prize.Memoir writers who were close companions of T. S. Eliot (such as Joseph Chiari and Herbert Read) have remarked upon Valerie Eliot's extremely positive and rejuvenating effect on T. S. Eliot, who had suffered greatly during the difficult marriage to his first wife, Vivienne Haigh (who died after being committed to a home). Valerie is credited with giving T. S. Eliot some of the happiest years of his life before his health declined.Eliot, T. S. is the author of 'Letters of T.s.eliot-v.1' with ISBN 9780151508853 and ISBN 0151508852.