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A rediscovered story of unrequited love which reveals an intimate new portrait of the poet T. S. Eliot and of its author, a formidable woman sidelined by literary history.

Heartbreaking and wonderfully told.' Susan Hill, Spectator Books of the Year

Compelling ... compulsive.' Margaret Drabble, New Statesman

In 1938 T.S. Eliot struck up a friendship with Mary Trevelyan, a passionately curious woman and intrepid traveller. Their relationship was cosy and domestic characterised by churchgoing, record-playing, day trips with Mary at the wheel or Eliot in his rolled shirt-sleeves cooking up sausages for dinner. Over the years, Mary came to believe that their friendship might lead to something more . . . but their journey together did not end as she would have hoped.

Trevelyan left a unique document of diaries, letters and pictures charting their twenty-year-long relationship in her vivid prose. Erica Wagner has brought this untold stor

Mary and Mr Eliot

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 6 October 2022
      ISBN-13 9780571337330
      978-0571337330
      ISBN-10 0571337333
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A rediscovered story of unrequited love which reveals an intimate new portrait of the poet T. S. Eliot and of its author, a formidable woman sidelined by literary history.

      Heartbreaking and wonderfully told.'       Susan Hill, Spectator Books of the Year

      Compelling ... compulsive.' Margaret Drabble, New Statesman

      In 1938 T.S. Eliot struck up a friendship with Mary Trevelyan, a passionately curious woman and intrepid traveller. Their relationship was cosy and domestic characterised by churchgoing, record-playing, day trips with Mary at the wheel or Eliot in his rolled shirt-sleeves cooking up sausages for dinner. Over the years, Mary came to believe that their friendship might lead to something more . . . but their journey together did not end as she would have hoped.

      Trevelyan left a unique document of diaries, letters and pictures charting their twenty-year-long relationship in her vivid prose. Erica Wagner has brought this untold stor

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