Elizabeth Bowen

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Standard Name: Bowen, Elizabeth
Birth Name: Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen
Nickname: Bitha
EB published ten novels, seventy-nine short stories, a history of her Anglo-Irish family, and a large body of critical and other nonfictional writing. Her novels and short stories blend romance (the perils of innocence, and its loss, are favourite themes) with comedy and satire, and sometimes with hints of the occult. She was well known and widely read during her life, which occupied about three-quarters of the twentieth century. Eudora Welty claimed that EBwrote with originality, bounty, vigor, style, beauty up to the last.
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Lassner, Phyllis. Elizabeth Bowen. Twayne, 1991.
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Hoogland, Renée C. Elizabeth Bowen: A Reputation in Writing. New York University Press, 1994.
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Lassner, Phyllis. Elizabeth Bowen. Twayne, 1991.
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Black and white head-and-shoulders photograph of Elizabeth Bowen seen in profile, with her head slightly turned. She is wearing a dark, high-collared jacket with a polka-dotted scarf around her neck; her hair, dark with a white streak, is pulled back in a bun, and she is wearing dark lipstick.
Black-and-white closeup portrait photograph of Elizabeth Bowen, 1949.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Features Marjorie Bowen
MB credits British women novelists for modifying the methods of the great European novelists, noting in particular Dorothy Richardson 's perfection of the stream-of-consciousness technique. She draws a contrast between Dorothy Richardson 's Miriam and...
Textual Features Vita Sackville-West
The letters VSW exchanged with her husband were absolutely crucial to the creation and the sustenance of their relationship: they expressed such closeness by letter that it almost took the place of sexual or literal...
Textual Features E. M. Delafield
This tale, about of two young girls who rely on their imagination to escape the trauma they experience during war, is reminiscent of Elizabeth Bowen 's wartime tales of psychic aberration in the face of...
Textual Production Anne Ridler
AR published a biography of her own old headmistress: Olive Willis and Downe House , An Adventure in Education, with a foreword by Elizabeth Bowen .
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2024, Numerous volumes.
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Ridler, Anne. Olive Willis and Downe House. John Murray, 1967.
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Textual Production Dorothy Richardson
In her correspondence Richardson addresses a great range of topics, including her own varied reading. She comments on women writers from Julian of Norwich through Jane Austen , Emily and Charlotte Brontë , George Eliot
Textual Production Lady Cynthia Asquith
Her ten anthologiesedited during the 1920s (some of them under pseudonyms such as Leonard Gray) had some significance for the writing of that decade, since they incorporated contributions from, for instance, Marghanita Laski ,...
Textual Production Sylvia Plath
SP was a student guest editor for Mademoiselle magazine, for which she interviewed Elizabeth Bowen .
Hayman, Ronald. The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath. Heinemann, 1991.
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Wagner-Martin, Linda. Sylvia Plath: A Biography. Simon and Schuster, 1987.
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Textual Production Margery Lawrence
ML 's ghost stories have been frequently anthologised. They appear in, for instance, Fifty Strangest Stories Ever Told (1937), The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: The Twentieth Century (1987), and Vampire Stories (1993).
Clute, John, and John, 1949 - Grant, editors. The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. St Martin’s Press, 1997.
under Lawrence, Margery
Textual Production Harold Pinter
In 1989 Pinter adapted for television Elizabeth Bowen 's novel The Heat of the Day, 1949, about wartime intrigue and betrayal. His version addresses the corrosive effect of fascism on human relationships.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Henry Green
HG 's rather small band of admirers (who have included Elizabeth Bowen and Eudora Welty ) have always felt him to be seriously underestimated.
Textual Production Elizabeth Taylor
ET felt strongly about the advantages of men over women as writers, especially over mothers. I don't think anything enrages me so much as seeing in famous men's autobiographies photographs of their studies, libraries, quiet...
Textual Production Susan Hill
The anthology of British women writers she published in 1990 with Michael Joseph as The Parchment Moon: An Anthology of Modern Women's Short Stories was reprinted the following year as The Penguin Book of Modern...
Textual Production Elizabeth Taylor
ET 's list of favourite writers proves that her tastes were catholic and that she valued artistry, but says little about influences. Elizabeth Bowen was a writer who, for her, could do no wrong.
Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen, 1986.
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Textual Production Sarah Waters
She carried out as much research as available sources permitted into lesbian lives in England of the 1940s, and spent four years working on this novel (as compared with one year for her first). She...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Eudora Welty
Those reviewed include Margery Allingham Carter , Sylvia Townsend Warner , Virginia Woolf , Rose Macaulay , Colette , Isak Dinesen , Elizabeth Bowen , Katherine Anne Porter , and EW 's close friend Ken Millar

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