Valerie Eliot

Valerie Eliot
Eliot in 1980
Born
Esmé Valerie Fletcher

17 August 1926
Died9 November 2012(2012-11-09) (aged 86)
London, England
Occupation(s)Secretary, editor, literary executor
Spouse
(m. 1957; died 1965)

Esmé Valerie Eliot (née Fletcher; 17 August 1926 – 9 November 2012) was the second wife and later widow of the Nobel prize-winning poet T. S. Eliot. She was a major shareholder in the publishing firm of Faber and Faber Limited and the editor and annotator of a number of books dealing with her late husband's writings.