TS Eliot's Cruelest Months

In this biography of T.S. Eliot, Robert Crawford includes the women closest to him: Charlotte Eliot, his mother who wrote poetry and sang “The Little Tailor” to him as a baby; Ada Eliot, his sister who was 19 when he was born; Emily Hale, an American actress and his first love; Vivien Eliot; Mary Trevelyan, his longtime confidante and best friend; and Valerie Fletcher, his second wife who cared for him when he was dying of emphysema.