Tom Williams

The lonely passions of Emily Hale and Mary Trevelyan

The stories of two remarkable women who hoped – with good reason – to marry T.S. Eliot show the poet in an unfamiliar light

Emily Hale – the Hyacinth girl of The Waste Land and T.S. Eliot’s great love. [Smith College Special Collections]

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