Eliot was the younger daughter of a land agent, spending her early years in a sleepy, undistinguished village near the town of Nuneaton in Warwickshire.

• 艾略特是一位地产经纪人的小女儿，在靠近华立克郡纽尼顿镇的一个寂静不起眼的小村庄里度过童年。