{"id":15258,"date":"2020-11-05T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T09:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/?p=15258"},"modified":"2024-07-31T10:53:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T10:53:29","slug":"the-fall-of-a-sparrow-vivien-eliots-life-and-writings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/the-fall-of-a-sparrow-vivien-eliots-life-and-writings\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fall of a Sparrow: Vivien Eliot&#8217;s Life and Writings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15261 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/The-Fall-of-a-Sparrow-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/The-Fall-of-a-Sparrow-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/The-Fall-of-a-Sparrow.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/>The Fall of a Sparrow<\/em>, a new work on the life and writings of Vivien Eliot by Ann Pasternak-Slater, is published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faber.co.uk\/catalog\/product\/view\/id\/7616\/s\/9780571334032-the-fall-of-a-sparrow\/\">Faber &amp; Faber<\/a> today. 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\u2019s 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\u2019s own writing are presented, carefully distinguished from Eliot\u2019s input, which demonstrate a fresh and wry talent all of her own.<\/p>\n<p>Part I is a meticulous biography of Vivien, which also necessarily documents in detail the most formative elements of Eliot&#8217;s life. Part II is a scholarly edition of Vivien&#8217;s writings which document the couple&#8217;s early playful collaboration and the development of Vivien&#8217;s independent laconic narrative style. Part III, available digitally on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tseliot.com\/vivien\">tseliot.com<\/a>, provides a full transcript of Vivien&#8217;s four surviving diaries and other manuscripts, spanning 1914-1936, which focus directly on her daily life and increasingly troubled mind. Part III is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tseliot.com\/vivien\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fall of a Sparrow, a new work on the life and writings of Vivien Eliot by Ann Pasternak-Slater, is published by Faber &amp; Faber today. 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\u2019s most gossiped-about, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/the-fall-of-a-sparrow-vivien-eliots-life-and-writings\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15258"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15268,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15258\/revisions\/15268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}