Graham Greene recovering the religious element, the awareness of the drama of the struggle in the soul that carries the permanent consequence of salvation or damnation, and of the ultimate metaphysical realities of good and evil, sin and divine grace, could the novel recover its dramatic power. Suffering and unhappiness are omnipresent in the world Greene depicts; and Catholicism is presented against a background of unvarying human evil, sin, and doubt. V. S. Pritchett praised Greene as the first English novelist since Henry James to present, and grapple with, the reality of evil. Greene concentrated on portraying the characters' internal lives –
Vivien Greene the public. Her collection was auctioned off in London in 1998. A cat lover, she was also a supporter of the Protection of Tigers League. Vivien Dayrell-Browning Greene died on 19 August 2003 in Oxfordshire at the age of 99. Vivien Greene Vivien Greene (née Dayrell-Browning) (1 August 1904 – 19 August 2003) was the world's foremost dolls' house expert and the leading authority on period English doll's houses. She was also wife and widow of the distinguished novelist Graham Greene. Vivien Dayrell-Browning was born in Rhodesia. As a child she spent her pocket-money collecting dolls' house furniture. She had