She was born in a small provincial town seventy-six years ago, the last of the nine children of a well-to-do trades-man. Just after she was fifteen she withdrew from ordinary life and lived obscure and unknown except to a handful of people until she died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-four years and nine months.

She was born in a small provincial town seventy-six years ago, the last of the nine children of a well-to-do trades-man. Just after she was fifteen she withdrew from ordinary life and lived obscure and unknown except to a handful of people until she died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-four years and nine months.

She was born in a small provincial town seventy-six years ago, the last of the nine children of a well-to-do trades-man. Just after she was fifteen she withdrew from ordinary life and lived obscure and unknown except to a handful of people until she died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-four years and nine months.

She was born in a small provincial town seventy-six years ago, the last of the nine children of a well-to-do trades-man. Just after she was fifteen she withdrew from ordinary life and lived obscure and unknown except to a handful of people until she died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-four years and nine months.