diff --git a/Lib/html/parser.py b/Lib/html/parser.py
--- a/Lib/html/parser.py
+++ b/Lib/html/parser.py
@@ -139,8 +139,16 @@
             if self.convert_charrefs and not self.cdata_elem:
                 j = rawdata.find('<', i)
                 if j < 0:
-                    if not end:
-                        break  # wait till we get all the text
+                    # if we can't find the next <, either we are at the end
+                    # or there's more text incoming.  If the latter is True,
+                    # we can't pass the text to handle_data in case we have
+                    # a charref cut in half at end.  Try to determine if
+                    # this is the case before proceding by looking for an
+                    # & near the end and see if it's followed by a space or ;.
+                    amppos = rawdata.rfind('&', max(i, n-34))
+                    if (amppos >= 0 and
+                        not re.compile(r'[\s;]').search(rawdata, amppos)):
+                            break  # wait till we get all the text
                     j = n
             else:
                 match = self.interesting.search(rawdata, i)  # < or &
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_htmlparser.py b/Lib/test/test_htmlparser.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_htmlparser.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_htmlparser.py
@@ -72,9 +72,6 @@
 
 class EventCollectorCharrefs(EventCollector):
 
-    def get_events(self):
-        return self.events
-
     def handle_charref(self, data):
         self.fail('This should never be called with convert_charrefs=True')
 
@@ -633,6 +630,18 @@
         ]
         self._run_check(html, expected)
 
+    def test_convert_charrefs_dropped_text(self):
+        # #23144: make sure that all the events are triggered when
+        # convert_charrefs is True, even if we don't call .close()
+        parser = EventCollector(convert_charrefs=True)
+        # before the fix, bar & baz was missing
+        parser.feed("foo <a>link</a> bar &amp; baz")
+        self.assertEqual(
+            parser.get_events(),
+            [('data', 'foo '), ('starttag', 'a', []), ('data', 'link'),
+             ('endtag', 'a'), ('data', ' bar & baz')]
+        )
+
 
 class AttributesTestCase(TestCaseBase):