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Driven to distraction — the unhappy life of Vivien Eliot

T.S. Eliot’s first wife was a writer herself, but Ann Pasternak Slater seems neither to rate her prose nor sympathise with her highly-strung character

Vivien Eliot’s passport photograph, 1920. Credit: Alamy 
issue 14 November 2020
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  • The Fall of a Sparrow: Vivien Eliot’s Life and Writings

    Ann Pasternak Slater

    Faber, pp. 784, £35

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