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
Travel Carson McCullers
The couple travelled to France together in 1946, and spent the winter and most of 1947 in Paris, with a side trip to Rome. CMC loved visiting new places both within and beyond...
Travel Eudora Welty
She visited Mexico as a young woman, and during the early 1950s a Guggenheim Fellowship enabled her to travel to Europe. She spent time in Dublin and stayed with Elizabeth Bowen . In the 70s...
Travel Lady Cynthia Asquith
Her old age included travel: three visits to Elizabeth Bowen in Ireland and one to Tolstoy 's estate of Yasnaya Polyana in Russia (with two days in Moscow and one in Leningrad) in connection...

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