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
S. T. Joshi awards from the World Fantasy Convention for their decision to discontinue use of the bust of H.P. Lovecraft as the basis for their awards. S. T. Joshi Sunand Tryambak Joshi (born 22 June 1958), known as S. T. Joshi, is an American literary critic, novelist, and a leading figure in the study of H. P. Lovecraft and other authors of weird and fantastic fiction. Besides having written what critics such as Harold Bloom and Joyce Carol Oates consider to be the definitive biography of Lovecraft, "I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft" (Hippocampus Press, 2 vols.,