Vivien Greene

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. Early life Vivien Dayrell-Browning was born in Rhodesia. As a child she spent her pocket-money collecting dolls' house furniture. She had a difficult childhood: her father had an affair and her mother left him, requiring Vivien at the age of fifteen to write him a letter ending their relationship. She published her first book The Little Wings, a collection of poetry and prose, when she was fifteen; it had an introduction by G. K. Chesterton, who was a family friend. She began working for Basil Blackwell when she was fifteen. Marriage, family and separation