in 1869 and, after much hard work, he found a job as a journalist in Cincinnati, Ohio. He lived in poverty in London and moved to the U.S. From the age of eleven he studied at seminaries in France and England, but he lost his sight in his left eye in an accident, and the death of his father, his aunt’s bankruptcy, and his dislike of theology combined to force him to drop out of school at age seventeen. Later, his father remarried, so Hearn was raised by his great-aunt. Two years later, the mother and her son moved to his father’s birthplace in Dublin, but due to her husband’s absence and cultural differences, Lafcadio’s mother became neurotic, and when Hearn was 4 years old, she was divorced by her husband and returned home alone. Lafcadio Hearn was born in 1850 on the Greek island of Lefkas (after which Lafcadio is named) to an Irish-born British Army doctor father, and a Greek mother.
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