Eliot arranged for a formal separation February 1933, and thereafter shunned her entirely, hiding from her and instructing his friends – including members of the Bloomsbury Group [Virginia Wolfe's & sometimes Joyce's crowd] and the publisher Faber & Faber, where he was a director – not to tell her where he was; Her brother had her committed to an asylum in 1938, after she was found wandering the streets of London at five | in the morning, asking whether Eliot had been beheaded: Apart from one escape attempt she remained there until she died nine years later at 58; said to have suffered a heart attack, there is suspicion of suicide by deliberate drug overdose; Eliot winning the Nobel Prize for Literature the following year;
Carole Seymour-Jones writes that it was out of the turmoil & tumultuous *** of the marriage [in which Vivian would cry out in agony; due to untreated cysts that caused horrendously painful cramps & unstoppable bleeding]; that Eliot produced The Waste Land, one of the 20th century's finest love poems to the horrors of the Abyss [seen & read as personifying the whole of the 20th century]; Eliot's sister-in-law, Theresa, said of the relationship: "Vivienne ruined Tom as a man, but she made him a poet."