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Anthologization | Muriel Spark | This came at a time when she was submitting her work (almost entirely poetry) in large quantity and having it rejected. She submitted this story as Aquarius: real names were not revealed until the... |
death | Charles Darwin | CD
, naturalist, died at his estate of Downe in Kent, which became a girls' boarding-school in 1907 and is now a museum. Elizabeth Bowen
, who was a girl at the school, was... |
Dedications | Susan Tweedsmuir | ST
published the third of her own novels, The Rainbow through the Rain, which she dedicated to Elizabeth Bowen
. OCLC WorldCat. Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
Dedications | Eudora Welty | EW
's next collected volume, containing seven pieces, The Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories, was dedicated to Elizabeth Bowen
. Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. New York Times. New York Times Company. 4 TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. 667 |
Dedications | Elizabeth Taylor | ET
published her ninth novel, The Soul of Kindness. She dedicated it to Elizabeth Bowen
, using the latter's married name of Elizabeth Cameron to indicate that this was a personal, not only a literary, relationship. Leclercq, Florence. Elizabeth Taylor. Twayne, 1985. 81n3 Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books, 2009. 350 |
Education | Anne Ridler | Downe House had been founded at Charles Darwin
's old home by Olive Willis
, a remarkable woman who was still headmistress, who exercised an important influence on AR
, and whose biography Ridler later... |
Education | Stella Gibbons | Writers Elizabeth Bowen
and Christina Hole
enrolled in this course at roughly the same time as SG
. Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury, 1998. 33 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rosamond Lehmann | In the early stages of the turmoil which the Spanish Civil War brought into her life, RL
met and fell in love with Welsh writer Goronwy Rees
at the home of Elizabeth Bowen
, who... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
originally met Day-Lewis at Elizabeth Bowen
's home in London in 1936. Their next meeting followed on her reviewing his Poems in Wartime, 1940, for the New Statesman. She called him a... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Iris Murdoch | Bayley (who was six years younger than Murdoch) appeared to her as an escape from her painful, dominated relationship with Elias Canetti
. Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002. 374 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Jenkins | In her day EJ
knew most of the London literary world. She met Agatha Christie
, whom she described as the most elegantly dressed elderly woman I have ever seen. Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson, 2004. 148 |
Friends, Associates | F. Tennyson Jesse | Gordon Place became the centre of an active female literary community, which included Elizabeth Bowen
, Rose Macaulay
, Virginia Woolf
, Ivy Low
(who was also a good friend of Viola Meynell
), Ivy Compton-Burnett |
Friends, Associates | Susan Tweedsmuir | ST
made her own the friendship with Elizabeth Robins
that had begun because Robins was a friend of her mother's. She was also close to playwright-producer Harley Granville-Barker
and particularly to his second wife, the... |
Friends, Associates | Carson McCullers | Other friends who not of this group but who were important to CMC
included several distinguished writers: Eudora Welty
, Katherine Anne Porter
, Tennessee Williams
, Elizabeth Ames
(director of the writers' community at... |
Friends, Associates | Molly Keane | Molly's close friends included novelist Elizabeth Bowen
and actress Peggy Ashcroft
. Visiting the Perry family home at Woodrooff, she met John Perry
, who later collaborated with her on plays, and Bobby Keane
... |