Eliot Bliss for her second and last novel. She then settled permanently in England and completed a diploma course in journalism at University College, London. In 1925 she renamed herself Eliot as a mark of her respect for George Eliot and T. S. Eliot. Over subsequent years Bliss held various jobs in publishing and established wide friendships with other women writers, notably fellow novelists Romer Wilson, who gave her financial support while she was writing her first novel, and Vita Sackville-West. Her relations with the Australian-born poet Anna Wickham (1883–1947) are said to have been intimate. She lived as a companion for
T. S. Eliot a character who had appeared in a number of his poems. Although Eliot did not finish the play, he did publish two scenes from the piece. These scenes, titled "Fragment of a Prologue" (1926) and "Fragment of an Agon" (1927), were published together in 1932 as "Sweeney Agonistes". Although Eliot noted that this was not intended to be a one-act play, it is sometimes performed as one. A pageant play by Eliot called "The Rock" was performed in 1934 for the benefit of churches in the Diocese of London. Much of it was a collaborative effort; Eliot accepted credit only