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Emily Hale
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'''Emily Hale''' (1891-1969) was a teacher, actor and director. She met TS Eliot while he was a graduate student at Harvard in 1912 and he fell in love with her. Eliot's letters to Hale were deposited in Princeton University Library in 1956 and were for many years among the best-known sealed archives in the world.<ref name=":0">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
Hale was born in Boston and attended Harvard University.<ref></ref> From 1916 to 1942 she was a speech and drama teacher at Simmons College, Milwaukee-Downer College, Scripps College, and Smith College.<ref name=":0" />
According to Eliot's note on their relationship written in 1960 he fell in love with Hale in 1912 and declared his love shortly before leaving for Europe in 1914.<ref></ref> In June 1915, Eliot married [[Vivienne Haigh-Wood]], and his correspondence with Hale did not resume until the final breakdown of this marriage in 1933. From then until 1946 Eliot wrote Hale over a thousand letters.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> His relationship with Hale was said by some biographers to provide Eliot with a model of a silent, ethereal woman and chaste love that could be indefinitely sustained.<ref name=":0" /> Hale's own feelings for Eliot are largely unknown, partly because Eliot burned all of her letters when he prepared to marry his second wife Valerie. Hale had anticipated that they would live together when Vivienne died and was shocked and sad when she learned he had decided not to marry her.<ref name=":1">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
Hale and Eliot spent the summers from 1935 to 1939 together in Campden, Gloucestershire.<ref name=":1" /> In 1934 Hale and Eliot visited Norton House, an abandoned manor house in Gloucestershire. This visit was a key source for much of Eliot's 1935 poem [[Burnt Norton]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 2, expected 1)</ref>
Hale was a friend of the Princeton University Professor Willard Thorp and his wife Margaret.<ref name=":0" /> From 1942 she was exploring with him the idea of keeping Eliot's letters in the Princeton University Library for safekeeping, and she did this in July 1956. <ref name=":0" /> Probably to respect Eliot's wishes, she specified that they should be kept closed for fifty years after her or Eliot's death. The archive was opened to scholars in January 2020.<ref name=":0" />
== References ==
Hale was born in Boston and attended Harvard University.<ref></ref> From 1916 to 1942 she was a speech and drama teacher at Simmons College, Milwaukee-Downer College, Scripps College, and Smith College.<ref name=":0" />
According to Eliot's note on their relationship written in 1960 he fell in love with Hale in 1912 and declared his love shortly before leaving for Europe in 1914.<ref></ref> In June 1915, Eliot married [[Vivienne Haigh-Wood]], and his correspondence with Hale did not resume until the final breakdown of this marriage in 1933. From then until 1946 Eliot wrote Hale over a thousand letters.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> His relationship with Hale was said by some biographers to provide Eliot with a model of a silent, ethereal woman and chaste love that could be indefinitely sustained.<ref name=":0" /> Hale's own feelings for Eliot are largely unknown, partly because Eliot burned all of her letters when he prepared to marry his second wife Valerie. Hale had anticipated that they would live together when Vivienne died and was shocked and sad when she learned he had decided not to marry her.<ref name=":1">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
Hale and Eliot spent the summers from 1935 to 1939 together in Campden, Gloucestershire.<ref name=":1" /> In 1934 Hale and Eliot visited Norton House, an abandoned manor house in Gloucestershire. This visit was a key source for much of Eliot's 1935 poem [[Burnt Norton]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 2, expected 1)</ref>
Hale was a friend of the Princeton University Professor Willard Thorp and his wife Margaret.<ref name=":0" /> From 1942 she was exploring with him the idea of keeping Eliot's letters in the Princeton University Library for safekeeping, and she did this in July 1956. <ref name=":0" /> Probably to respect Eliot's wishes, she specified that they should be kept closed for fifty years after her or Eliot's death. The archive was opened to scholars in January 2020.<ref name=":0" />
== References ==
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