The Vivien Eliot Papers is a groundbreaking new biography of Vivien Eliot, comprising two sections: her Life and her Papers. Based on a rich repository of primary evidence, much only recently uncovered, it corrects the accidental inaccuracies and deliberate distortions that have circulated around one of Bloomsbury's most gossiped-about, enigmatic couples, while unveiling fascinating new discoveries that give a more balanced understanding of both partners. For the first time, too, immaculate texts of Vivien's own writing are presented, carefully distinguished from Eliot's input, which demonstrate a fresh and wry talent all of her own.

Vivien Haigh-Wood Eliot (1888-1947) was an English governess and writer, who became known for her marriage in 1915 to T. S. Eliot.
Ann Pasternak Slater is a literary scholar, translator and former Senior Research Fellow and Tutor at St Anne's College, Oxford. She taught English Literature for forty years, specialising in Renaissance and Twentieth Century Literature. She is on the editorial board of the 42-volume scholarly edition of The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh soon to be published by Oxford University Press, and is editing its volume of the Complete Short Fiction.