ll in life. Eleanor once described her father as "He dominated my life as long as he lived and was the love of my life for many years after he died. " Elliot was an alcoholic. On one occasion he, Eleanor, and their dog went for a walk. He went in to the Men's Club telling Eleanor he would be right back. Hours later he came out drunk as could be. He was soon banned from their house and legally separated from Eleanor because of alcoholism and philandering. "When she was eight, Eleanor's mother died and some said she could have " cared less ". Soon after though, she felt a loss at the age of nine when her brother died and at ten when her father died.
             After her father's death in 1894, she and brother Hall were sentenced to live with her grandmother, Mary Ludlow Hall, who didn't know much about raising kids. Eleanor was sent to a boarding school in England called Allenswood at the age of fifteen. Allenswood was outside of London and all the classes were in
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