Valerie Eliot

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Valerie Eliot née Esmé Valerie Fletcher (b. January 26, 1926) is the surviving widow and second wife of the Nobel prize winning poet Thomas Stearns Eliot. She married Eliot, thirty-seven years her senior, on January 10, 1957. ^[1] 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 She also assisted Christopher Ricks with his edition of The Inventions of the March Hare (1996), a volume of Eliot's unpublished verse.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. ^[2]

She donates the £10,000 annual prize money for the T. S. Eliot Prize.

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• "Dear Mrs Eliot...", an article by Karen Christensen in The Guardian on Valerie Eliot's stewardship and interpretation of TS Eliot's literary legacy.

[edit] References

1. ^ Esty, Jed (2002). "Modern American Poetry: An Online Journal and Multimedia Companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2000)." Retrieved January 20, 2007.
2. ^ Christensen, Karen (Jan. 29, 2005). "Dear Mrs Eliot...". The Guardian.