Elizabeth Bowen (1) (1899–1973)
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Elizabeth Bowen, distinguished Anglo-Irish novelist, was born in Dublin in 1899, traveled extensively, lived in London, and inherited the family estate-Bowen's Court, in County Cork. Her account of the house, Bowen's Court (1942), with a detailed fictionalized history of the family in Ireland mehr anzeigen through three centuries, has charm, warmth, and insight. Seven Winters is a fragment of autobiography published in England in 1942. The "Afterthoughts" of the original edition are critical essays in which she discusses and analyzes, among others, such literary figures as Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, Katherine Mansfield, Anthony Trollope, and Eudora Welty. Bowen's stories, mostly about people of the British upper middle class, portray relationships that are never simple, except, perhaps, on the surface. Her concern with time and memory is a major theme. Beautifully and delicately written, her stories, with their oblique psychological revelations, are symbolic, subtle, and terrifying. A Time in Rome (1960) is her brilliant evocation of that city and its layered past. In 1948, Bowen was made a Commander of the British Empire. Bowen died in 1973. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Love's Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen and Charles Ritchie: Letters and Diaries 1941-1973 (2008) — Autor — 70 Exemplare
Seven winters; memories of a Dublin childhood & afterthoughts, pieces on writing (1962) 15 Exemplare
Why Do I Write?: An Exchange of Views Between Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene and V.S.Pritchett (English Literature… (1948) 6 Exemplare
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The Smiles of Rome: A Literary Companion for Readers and Travelers (2005) — Mitwirkender — 57 Exemplare
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The House of the Nightmare and Other Eerie Tales (1967) — Mitwirkender; Autor, einige Ausgaben — 47 Exemplare
Modern Irish Short Stories. Selected with an Introduction by Frank O'Connor. (1957) — Mitwirkender — 43 Exemplare
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 1: The Individual and Human Values (1964) — Mitwirkender — 40 Exemplare
Ladies of Horror: Two Centuries of Supernatural Stories by the Gentle Sex (1971) — Mitwirkender — 24 Exemplare
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- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- Bowen, Elizabeth
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Cameron, Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen
- Andere Namen
- Bowen, Bitha
- Geburtstag
- 1899-06-07
- Todestag
- 1973-02-22
- Begräbnisort
- St Colman's Church, Farahy, County Cork, Ireland
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- Ierland
- Geburtsort
- Dublin, Ierland
- Sterbeort
- Londen, Engeland, Groot-Brittannië
- Wohnorte
- Dublin, Ireland
Farahy, Ireland
Hythe, England, UK
Regent's Park, London, England, UK
Headington, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK - Ausbildung
- Downe House School, Kent, England, UK
- Berufe
- novelist
short story writer - Beziehungen
- Ritchie, Charles (lover)
- Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Order of the British Empire (Commander, 1948)
Companion of Literature (1965)
Doctor of Letters, Trinity College, Dublin
Doctor of Letters, Oxford University (1956)
Lacy Martin Donnelly Fellow (1956) - Kurzbiographie
- Elizabeth Bowen was born in Dublin in 1899, the only child of an Irish lawyer and landowner. Her book Bowen's Court (1942) is the history of her family and their house in County Cork. Throughout her life, she divided her time between London and Bowen's Court, which she inherited. She had friends among the Bloomsbury Group, and was close to Rose Macaulay, who helped her find a publisher for her first book, a collection of short stories called Encounters (1923). During World War II, Elizabeth Bowen lived in London and worked for the British Ministry of Information. She received acclaim for her novels and short story collections, was awarded the CBE (Companion of the Order of the British Empire) in 1948, and was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1965. She died in 1973.
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