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 one of the most moving poems Eliot wrote, and perhaps the "most perfect", though it was not well received by everyone. The poem's groundwork of orthodox Christianity discomfited many of the more secular "literati". In 1939, Eliot published a book of light verse, "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" ("Old Possum" was Ezra Pound's nickname for him). This first edition had an illustration of the author on the cover. In 1954, the composer Alan Rawsthorne set six of the poems for speaker and orchestra in a work titled "Practical Cats". After Eliot's death, the book was adapted as the basis