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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.
- Vivien Dayrell-Browning, 1 August 1904, Rhodesia
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- Graham Greene (m. 1927)
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 death, aged 98....
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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 ...
- Joan Acocella
He converted to Catholicism in 1926 after meeting his future wife, Vivien Dayrell-Browning. Later in life he took to calling himself a "Catholic agnostic". [7] He died in 1991, aged 86, of leukemia , [8] and was buried in Corseaux cemetery in Switzerland .
- Writer
While a student at Oxford, where he dabbled in literary activities and published a book of poetry, Greene fell in love with Vivien Dayrell-Browning, a teen-age convert to Catholicism who refused ...
Aug 25, 2003 · Greene, who was a notable authority and collector of dollhouses, was 98. Graham Greene met Vivien Dayrell-Browning while he was a student at Oxford when -- as a recently converted Catholic --...
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 ...
