ABSTRACT

Most of the areas in which Henry Graham Greene travelled are mentioned in the autobiographical volumes, A Sort of Life, Ways of Escape and Reflections. The coastal resort in the South of France where Greene lived in his later years; the setting of ‘May We Borrow Your Husband?’, ‘Beauty’ and ‘Chagrin in Three Parts’. Greene owned the Villa Rosaio in Anacapri, and numerous characters of Capri are described in the memoirs of Dottoressa Elizabeth Moor, which Greene edited. Greene’s journey through Tabasco and Chiapas is recorded in The Lawless Roads and exploited in The Power and the Glory. Greene’s college, Balliol, is the location of The Great Jowett and appears in ‘When Greek Meets Greek’. Between 1955 and 1959, Greene was a lover of the Swedish actress Anita Bjork, and bought a house for her near Stockholm. Greene visited Freetown in 1935 and worked there as an agent for MI6 during the Second World War.