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Vivien Greene (née Dayrell-Browning; 1 August 1904 – 19 August 2003) was a British writer regarded as the world's foremost expert on dolls' houses. She was the wife of the distinguished novelist Graham Greene.
Greene was an agnostic, but was baptised into the Catholic faith in 1926 after meeting his future wife Vivien Dayrell-Browning. They were married on 15 October 1927 at St Mary's Church, Hampstead, north London. The Greenes had two children, Lucy Caroline (born 1933) and Francis (born 1936).
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When Vivienne Dayrell-Browning was born on 1 August 1904, in Southern Rhodesia, her father, Sydney Broderick Browning, was 23 and her mother, Muriel Amy Green-Armytage, was 26. She married Henry Graham Greene on 15 October 1927, in Hampstead, London, England, United Kingdom.
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Mar 15, 2021 · Greene got married when he was twenty-three, to a devout Catholic woman, Vivien Dayrell-Browning, and he stayed married to her until he died, in 1991, but only because Vivien, for religious ...
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Norman Sherry. Fri 22 Aug 2003 21.15 EDT. At Grove House, Iffley in Oxford, the gate reads Mrs Graham Greene - it was a title Vivien Dayrell-Browning used from her marriage in 1927 until her...
4 days ago · After studying at Balliol College, Oxford, Greene converted to Roman Catholicism in 1926, partly through the influence of his future wife, Vivien Dayrell-Browning, whom he married in 1927. He moved to London and worked for The Times as a copy editor from 1926 to 1930.
Jan 7, 2021 · Greene’s first love was Vivien Dayrell-Browning, a secretary whose “tumultuous childhood” — the biographer writes in words that make her seem exactly wrong for this man — “had ...
