Things Ill-Done and Undone: T.S. Eliot’s Alibis
Helen Thaventhiran, 8 September 2022
Emily Hale was Eliot’s ‘Raspberrymouth’. That’s what he called her in the love letters they began exchanging in 1927, a correspondence that intensified in the early 1930s, and continued through the awkward years of their disentanglement after the death of his first wife, Vivien, in 1947. Eliot’s love for Emily, his ‘Tall Girl’, retained all the shy...