Dottoressa Moor
Item #6523
Elisabeth Moor arrived in Capri in 1926 to open a medical practice. Her passionate devotion to the poor of the island won her their affection, and in her forty years there she was to become a familiar 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." The Dottoressa also tended to what she called her 'grand patients' as well as members of the shifting and exotic foreign colony who lived on or visited Capri. Norman Douglas, who called her "the best of my two doctors ... she doesn't try to stop me drinking like the other does." Graham Greene chronicled her later life in his acclaimed "Travels with my Aunt." (9.5" x 12"). Very good condition with photographer's stamp on verso.
Price: $450.00