Abstract
Henry Green was the pen name of a hard-of-hearing Englishman, Henry Vincent Yorke (1905-1973), a business man by day and, in his off hours, a novelist "[f]ascinated by the misheard, the unspoken, the oblique."1 In the novels written before the 1940s and the onset of his deafness, however, this fascination with the misheard is scarcely in evidence. His first novel, Blindness, written when he was still at school and published in 1926 when he was twenty-one, is semi-autobiographical, providing the hero, John Haye, with Henry Yorke's real-life family estate, horsey mother, and aesthetic sensibilities—and perhaps his attitudes toward deafness. Haye, who is blinded in a freak accident, comes to appreciate his newly developed senses of hearing and touch—and to pity the deaf:
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