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Mary Greene – The Joy of Remembering
The autobiography of the Cambridge artist, Mary Greene, 1941
Pages 1-18. Preface and chapter 1, ‘Early Days in Grantchester,’ describing her family and schooling in the Old Vicarage.
Old Vicarage Grantchester, the Widnalls and Lally Smith
Pages 19-27. ‘My School and Home in Bedford’
Pages 28-35. ‘I visit my Uncle’. Uncle Benjamin was a Director of the Bank of England for 50 years and became its Governor.
Benjamin Green and Bank of England
Pages 36-48. ‘Studio Training’ as an artist in London
Manet’s Execution of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico
Pages 49-64. ‘I start Work and make Friends’, her return to Harston and Cambridge
Pages 65-70. ‘The Naming of the Lane’, living in Cambridge and meeting with Alderman Kett
Pages 71-89. ‘Harston and its people’
Pages 90 -99. ‘Some sketching stories’
Pages 100-106. ‘The Children of the Studio’, her pupils
Pages 107-122. ‘The Garden Alley Studio’
Pages 123-141. ‘About my pictures’
Pages 142-153. ‘About my writing’
Pages 154-160. ‘People I have met’ – ‘The Magnussens’
Page 161-169. ‘Mr Oswald Fisher, Rector of Harlton’
Page 170-180. ‘The Lady of the London Docks’
Pages 181-186. ‘The lady of Valparaiso’
Pages 187-195. ‘The lady of the Roman Catholic Church in Cambridge’
Pages 196-205. ‘The finders of the Syriac Codex’
Pages 206-213. ‘Miss Hargood’s Party’
Pages 214-225. ‘The Schallings of Saltsjøbaden’
Pages 226-245. ‘My Visits Abroad’ – ‘Three Times to Italy’
Pages 246-261. ‘Two visits to Holland’
Pages 262-274. ‘A Holiday in France’
Pages 275-284. ‘Midsummer in Sweden’
Pages 285-296. ‘Holidays among the Alps’
Pages 297-315. ‘In Brazil’
Page 316-229. ‘Buenos Ayres and home to England’
Pages 330-338. ‘Harston House and Garden’
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