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"Elisabeth Moor arrived in Capri in 1926, with two of her children, to practice as a doctor. Her passionate devotion to the poor of the island gradually won her their affection, and in her forty years there she was to become a familiar and controversial figure in Capri society. Graham Greene remembers her 'small square body with the big teeth ... startlingly blue eyes, the tough electric hair as alive as a bundle of fighting snakes. She was always on the move--down to the Marina Grande ... taking small tributes here and there, a lettuce from a stall in Caprile, an apple from the fruit shop on the Capri Steps ... ' The Dottoressa had what she called her 'grand patients' as well-members of the shifting and exotic foreign colony who lived on or visited Capri at one time or another. Axel Munthe, the lover of the Queen of Sweden; Norman Douglas, who called her 'the best of my two doctors ... she doesn't try to stop me drinking like the other does'; the Compton Mackenzies; the Principessa Nera, in perpetual mouming for a lost lover, with black lipstick, black nails, black clothes, black sheets ... In her own eccentric but expressive language the Dottoressa ranges, not always chronologica

Author

and with an epilogue by Graham Greene

Publisher

New York: The Viking Press

Published

1976

Language

EN

ISBN

9780370102603

Subjects

Medical, Memoir, Biography