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SUMMARY:The Silenced Muse: Emily Hale\, T. S. Eliot\, and the Role of a Lifetime (Main)
DESCRIPTION: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\, over the course of their lifetimes. Their relationship 
 was\, in their own words\, an “unnatural” love affair\, one that began 
 in Cambridge in 1913\, when Eliot was a graduate student at Harvard and 
 Hale\, an aspiring amateur actress\, and that played out in Boston\, 
 England and California over the years. \n\nNamed as one of its "Fifty 
 Notable Non-fiction Books of 2024" by the Washington Post\, Fitzgerald's 
 biography of Hale is based on the embargoed letters and extensive research 
 into Hale’s life and times. Hale was much more than just a muse to a 
 literary celebrity. She overcame personal hardship to pursue a career as a 
 professor of speech and drama at prominent American women’s colleges and 
 schools\, including Simmons and Smith Colleges and Abbot and Concord 
 Academies. She was a talented amateur actress and director\, who performed 
 at many Boston area theaters and later guided Eliot as he tried his hand at 
 playwriting. But in the end\, Eliot disavowed her\, sending a secret letter 
 to Harvard in 1960 that claimed his love for Hale was that of “a ghost 
 for a ghost\,” and confirming that he had arranged for Hale’s side of 
 their 27-year correspondence to be destroyed. In the words of The 
 Washington Post reviewer\, “Missing letters\, a secret love affair\, a 
 famous poet\, a beautiful actress—what else could you possibly want in a 
 story?"\n\nSara Fitzgerald is a retired journalist whose career included 
 fifteen years as an editor and new media developer for The Washington Post. 
 In 2020\, she also published The Poet’s Girl: A Novel of Emily Hale and 
 T. S. Eliot. Since then\, her essays about Hale have appeared in multiple 
 volumes of the Journal of the T. S. Eliot Society and the T. S. Eliot 
 Studies Annual. She has presented at the annual meetings of the Modern 
 Language Association\, the American Historical Association\, the 
 International T. S. Eliot Society\, and at the T. S. Eliot Summer School at 
 Oxford.  She is also the author of the biography\, Elly Peterson: 
 “Mother” of the Moderates and Conquering Heroines: How Women Fought Sex 
 Bias at Michigan and Paved the Way for Title IX.\n\n\n\n
LOCATION:Cambridge Room\, Main Library
ORGANIZER;CN="Alyssa Pacy":MAILTO:apacy@cambridgema.gov
CATEGORIES:Author Event, Cambridge Room, Feature
CONTACT;CN="Alyssa Pacy":MAILTO:apacy@cambridgema.gov
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URL:https://cambridgepl.libcal.com/event/14278648
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