Durham, 1866
LAFCADIO HEARN (1850 - 1904)
The great interpreter of Japan was born in Greece of Irish-Greek parentage. From 1863 he spent four years at Ushaw College. Such were his home circumstances that he spent his holidays at the College too. His walks in the surrounding countryside had a formative effect on his rather unstable character.
Ushaw had a number of games peculiar to the college and it was during one of them 'Giant's Strides', that Hearn sustained an eye injury from a knotted rope. This resulted in a loss of sight and a permanent disfigurement which was to have a profound effect on his life. He became convinced that he was unattractive to women, and contrived to have photographs taken of him only in profile.
http://online.northumbria.ac.uk/faculties/art/humanities/cns/m-hearn.html
The great interpreter of Japan was born in Greece of Irish-Greek parentage. From 1863 he spent four years at Ushaw College. Such were his home circumstances that he spent his holidays at the College too. His walks in the surrounding countryside had a formative effect on his rather unstable character.
Ushaw had a number of games peculiar to the college and it was during one of them 'Giant's Strides', that Hearn sustained an eye injury from a knotted rope. This resulted in a loss of sight and a permanent disfigurement which was to have a profound effect on his life. He became convinced that he was unattractive to women, and contrived to have photographs taken of him only in profile.
http://online.northumbria.ac.uk/faculties/art/humanities/cns/m-hearn.html
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