Painted shadow
Subtitle: the life of Vivienne Eliot, first wife of T.S. Eliot, and the long-suppressed truth about her influence on his genius
By: Carole Seymour-Jones.
Edition: 1st ed. in the United States of America
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 698
Subjects: Eliot, Vivienne, 1888-1947; Eliot, T. S. 1888-1965 -- Marriage; Authors' spouses -- Great Britain -- Biography; Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography; Hysteria -- Patients -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "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 portrait of Vivienne Eliot, first wife of poet T. S. Eliot, gives a voice to the woman who, for seventeen years, had shared a unique literary partnership with Eliot but who was scapegoated for the failure of the marriage and all but obliterated from historical record."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p [673]-680) and index.