Myclaimtoliterary fameisthat Iusedto deliver meattoa woman who becameT. S. Eliot's mother-in-law.

-Bennett, Alan
  In the Observer, 26  Apr. The lady in question was the mother of Eliot's wife Valerie Fletcher; Bennett's father was the butcher in the sameYorkshire village.

   How unpleasant to meet Mr Eliot! With his features of clerical cut, And his brow so grim And his mouth so prim.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  'Five-Finger Exercises'.

Venice will linger in your mind†and wherever you go in life you will feel somewhere over your shoulder, a pink, castellated, shimmering presence, the domes and riggings and crooked pinnacles of the Serenissima. There's romance for you! There's the lust and dark wine of Venice! No wonder George Eliot's husband fell into the Grand Canal.

-Morris,Jan formerly James Morris
  Venice.