Memories of Alison's life
Alison's husband Arthur was appointed Rector of the small village of East QuantoxHead, in Somerset, where their three sons grew up, and had happy memories of their childhood, until they were evacuated to America during the Second World War, when they were 16, 15 and 11.
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During the Second World War, Alison took her three boys to the USA, but her husband Arthur remained in East Quantoxhead. Alison arranged for her friend Ethne J. Copeman to act as Arthur's housekeeper.
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At the end of the War Alison returned to Britain, but her elder two boys - Anthony, then 21 and Michael, then 19 - decided to stay in the USA, where their descendants are now. Her youngest, Adrian, was 16, and returned to England with her.
T.S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns Eliot) was born 26 September, 1888, in St. Louis, Missouri. After earning a PhD at Harvard, in October 1910 he came to Europe to study at the Sorbonne. From 1911 to 1914, he was back at Harvard, and then in October 1914 he went to Merton College, Oxford until 1916. In Q2 1915, aged 26, he married Vivienne Haigh-Wood in Hampstead. After 1933, Vivienne suffered from mental illness, and the two lived separately until she died in 1947.
In 1927, T.S. Eliot became a British citizen.
From 1938 to 1957 Eliot's public companion was Mary Trevelyan
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On the outbreak of WW2, Eliot returned to the USA for the duration, and returned to England after the War was over.
On the voyage back, whom should he meet but Alison, and they had an affair.
Arthur accepted this, so much so that the three of them went on a motoring holiday to France together.
Alison arrived back at East QuantixHead to resume married life with her husband, Arthur, who responded with, "But what about Ethne ??"" and in Q4 1947, Arthur married Ethne J. Copeman in Chelsea.
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