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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Rev. E. K. Douglas
Vicar of St Mary of Eton, the Eton Mission, appointed in 1889 and, finding that boys playing football in Victoria Park was problematic, he set in motion the acquisition of 337 acres of Hackney Mars...
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War dead, WW1
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Private Harry Charles Cooper
Born in Stoke Newington, son of William Harry and Florence Cooper. Husband of Elizabeth Ann Cooper of Enfield. Served in The North Staffordshire Regiment 6th Battalion. Buried in Bayeux War Cemet...
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Dorota Rynkiewicz
Dorota K. Rynkiewicz was born on 30 April 1981 in Elblag, Poland. On 25 December 2005 she married her husband, Andrzej W. Rynkiewicz, and they had two children Nicole Rynkiewicz who was born on 13 ...
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