{"product_id":"the-silenced-muse-emily-hale-t-s-eliot-and-the-role-of-a-lifetime-9781538190357","title":"The Silenced Muse: Emily Hale, T. S. Eliot, and the Role of a Lifetime","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first full-length biography of the longtime secret love of the celebrated poet T. S. Eliot, Emily Hale, called \"heartbreaking\" by \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eand \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ecalls \"a meticulously researched book that reads like a novel.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. But even as Eliot scholars explore Hale's impact on Eliot's work, a tantalizing question has not been fully answered: who \u003ci\u003ewas \u003c\/i\u003eEmily Hale?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSara Fitzgerald's \u003ci\u003eThe Silenced Muse: Emily Hale, T. S. Eliot, and the Role of a Lifetime \u003c\/i\u003eis the first full-length biography devoted to Hale, telling her side of a complicated relationship. Based on the embargoed letters and Fitzgerald's extensive research into Hale's life and times, this book brings to light that Hale was much more than just a muse to a literary celebrity. Hale overcame personal hardship to pursue a career as a professor of speech and drama at prominent American women's colleges and schools. She was a talented amateur actress and director, sharing the stage with others who went on to notable professional careers. Behind the scenes, she also guided Eliot as he began to explore playwriting with works such as \u003ci\u003eMurder in the Cathedral. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHale's story is challenging to wholly uncover because the Boston clergyman's daughter was by nature reticent and humble. More critically, Eliot arranged for nearly all of her letters to be destroyed. \u003ci\u003eThe Silenced Muse \u003c\/i\u003efinally reveals that Hale's story is not that of a lover scorned, but rather a woman who was herself gifted and celebrated by her students and peers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSara Fitzgerald\u003c\/b\u003e is a retired journalist whose career included fifteen years as an editor and new media developer for the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post. \u003c\/i\u003eShe is the author of the biography \u003ci\u003eElly Peterson: \"Mother\" of the Moderates\u003c\/i\u003e, recognized as a Notable Book of 2012 by the Library of Michigan as well as by the Historical Society of Michigan. In 2020, she published \u003ci\u003eConquering Heroines: How Women Fought Sex Bias at Michigan and Paved the Way for Title IX\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Poet's Girl: A Novel of Emily Hale and T. S. Eliot\u003c\/i\u003e. Fitzgerald's essays about Hale have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eJournal of the T. S. Eliot Society\u003c\/i\u003e;the \u003ci\u003eT. S. Eliot Studies Annual\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e Time Present\u003c\/i\u003e, the newsletter of the International T. S. Eliot Society; and \u003ci\u003eExchanges\u003c\/i\u003e, the newsletter of the T. S. Eliot Society (UK). She lives in the Washington, DC, area. Learn more at www.sarafitzgerald.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50895239774482,"sku":"9781538190357","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1afc3c1a-dc0f-4b08-8976-61be2abf1257.jpg?v=1738268421","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-silenced-muse-emily-hale-t-s-eliot-and-the-role-of-a-lifetime-9781538190357","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}