page_title: Charlotte Champe Stearns
section_title: Life with T.S. Eliot
hierarchical_section_title: Charlotte Champe Stearns / Life with T.S. Eliot
caption_attribution_description: English: Cover of Charlotte Eliot's drama: Savonarola
context_page_description: Charlotte Champe Eliot, was a school teacher, poet, biographer, and social worker. She was the mother of T.S. Eliot, a famous poet, editor and literary critic, spouse of Henry Ware Eliot, who ran the Hydraulic Press Brick Company in St. Louis, Missouri, and daughter-in-law of William Greenleaf Eliot, a leading minister in St. Louis and a founder of Washington University.
context_section_description: T.S. Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1888, while the family resided at 2635 Locust Street. T.S. attended Smith Academy and then furthered his education at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. When T.S. was at Harvard, Charlotte sent him a letter that stated:
  "I hope in your literary work you will receive early the recognition I strove for and failed. I should so have loved a college course, but was obliged to teach before I was nineteen. I graduated with high rank, 'a young lady of unusual brilliancy as a scholar' my old yellow testimonial says, but when I was set to teaching young children, my Trigonometry and Astronomy counted for nought, and I made a dead failure."
caption: The cover of Stearns's 1926 dramatic poem, Savonarola
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