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CAROLE SEYMOUR-JONES was born in Wales and educated at Oxford University. She is the author of several books, including Beatrice Webb: Woman of Conflict. She spent the last five years researching the life of Vivienne Eliot both in England and in the United States, where she was awarded a Paul Mellon Visiting Fellowship at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin. She divides her time between Surrey and London.


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Painted Shadow

–Maurice Haigh-Wood, Vivienne Eliot’s brother, shortly before his death.

By the time she was committed to an asylum in 1938, five years after T. S. Eliot deserted her, Vivienne Eliot was a lonely, distraught figure. Shunned by literary London, she was the “neurotic” wife whom Eliot had left behind. In The Family Reunion, he described a wife who was a “restless shivering painted shadow,” and so she had become: a phantomlike shape on the fringe of Eliot’s life, written out of his biography and literary history.

This astonishing portrait of Vivienne Eliot, first wife of poet T.S.

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