The Silenced Muse: Emily Hale, T. S. Eliot, and the Role of a Lifetime

The first full—length biography of the longtime secret love of the celebrated poet T. S. Eliot, Emily Hale, called "heartbreaking" by Publishers Weekly.
In January 2020, the largest and most eagerly awaited cache of new materials written by the Nobel—Prize—winning poet T. S. Eliot was finally opened: the 1,131 letters he sent Emily Hale, his little—known American love. But even as Eliot scholars explore Hale’s impact on Eliot’s work, a tantalizing question has not been fully answered: who wa...