" After a stint at a secretarial college, she had been employed by novelist Charles Morgan, simply as a preparation for somehow getting a job with Faber.
Remembering Valerie Eliot, T.S. Eliot's Devoted Widow
By 1923, newly acclaimed for The Waste Land, he was renting rooms in Charing Cross Road, had adopted a bizarre alias, "Captain Eliot", and taken to wearing pale green face powder and lipstick.