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This photograph shows Harold Begbie with Eleanor, the last of his four daughters, in 1913. There can be no doubt that the touching and minutely observed description of the baby Leonore in his 1913 novel Rising Dawn is a portrait of his own daughter Eleanor.

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Gunter E. Grimm

[Deutsch] Geboren 1945. Studium der Germanistik, Geschichte und Politik in Tübingen und Stuttgart. Dr. phil. Professor für Neuere deutsche Literatur an der Universität Duisburg.
[English] Born in 1945. Study of the German language and literature, history and politics in Tübingen and St...