The Hyacinth Girl

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Among the greatest of poets, T. S. Eliot protected his privacy while publicly associated with three women: two wives, Vivienne and Valerie, and a church-going companion, Mary Trevelyan. This presentation concealed a life-long love for an American: Emily Hale, a drama teacher to whom he wrote (and later suppressed) over a thousand letters. Hale was the source of "memory and desire" in The Waste Land, she is the Hyacinth Girl.Drawing on the only recently unsealed 1, 131 letters Eliot wrote to Hale, leading biographer Lyndall Gordon reveals a hidden Eliot. Emily Hale now becomes the first and consistently important woman of life -- and his art. She was at the centre of a love drama he conceived and the inspiration for the lines he wrote to last beyond their time. 'As exciting as a detective story... Gordon establishes the profound influence [the relationship with Emily Hale] had upon the substance and imagery of Eliot's work' Margaret Drabble, New Statesman'The Hyacinth Girl is not only insightful and important, but a moving account of an unfairly obscured life' Tablet