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Valerie Eliot

Second wife of TS Eliot and his literary executor;

Born: August 17, 1926; Died: November 9, 2012.

Valerie Eliot, who has died in London aged 86, married the poet and playwright TS Eliot in 1957 when he was 39 years her senior. He had had a previous and unhappy first marriage, and Valerie was to provide a more stable and loving realtionship. Many commentators have written that she had a rejuvenating effect on him and their time together gave Eliot some of the happiest years of his life (he called it, "leaping delight").

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