Second wife and widow of the poet T.S. Eliot. Born Esmé Valerie Fletcher. From the age of 14 she determined to meet Eliot and when she left school she told her headmistress tht she wanted to become Eliot's secretary, which she did. Married him in 1957. Every Sunday night he left a love letter by her bed. She was Eliot's most important editor and literary executor, and donated the annual £15,000 prize money for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Died at her London home. Telegraph obit.
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Valerie Eliot
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TS Eliot tree
Russell Square Gardens Taxus baccata 'Fastigiata' or Irish Yew in remembranc...
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War dead, WW1
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War dead, WW1
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Mr Chew
'The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and other parts adjacent, Volume 5' names a 'Mr Chew' as the caster or sculptor of the Cumberland statue.
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This person's grave was destroyed by a WW2 bomb. The name is on the north-east face of the pedestal.
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