Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
Lassner, Phyllis. Elizabeth Bowen. Twayne.
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Hoogland, Renée C. Elizabeth Bowen: A Reputation in Writing. New York University Press.
MK
met and formed a writing friendship with fellow author Elizabeth Bowen
.
Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann.
90
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Friends, Associates
Lady Cynthia Asquith
Cynthia was also a friend of Viola Meynell
and of Enid Bagnold
, whose Sussex homes were close to that of the Asquiths during the Second World War. Thirkell, as well as Lawrence, Bagnold, and...
EW
's friendship with her fellow Mississippian William Faulkner
began from an impromptu postcard he sent her from Hollywood in 1943: Dear Welty: You are doing fine. You are doing all right. . ....
Friends, Associates
Iris Murdoch
She met Brigid Brophy
(another friend who was years tempestuously a lover) in 1954. This relationship survived several crises, when Brophy took offence at Murdoch's actions or expressed dislike for her writing. IM
met Elizabeth Bowen
Friends, Associates
Elizabeth Taylor
Friends said that ET
was very shy, but cared very much for very few people.
Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen.
44
She was lucky in that Ivy Compton-Burnett
(who was a generation older than she was, and notoriously difficult) and...
Friends, Associates
Stella Benson
Back in London after various summer travels, SB
met Eddie Marsh
, Rebecca West
, and Elizabeth Bowen
.
Grant, Joy. Stella Benson: A Biography. Macmillan.
251
Friends, Associates
H. D.
After her move to England, Ezra Pound
introduced HD to his circle of friends, many of whom were important figures in the modernist movement. They included W. B. Yeats
, T. S. Eliot
,...
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.
374
He later held one of Oxford's few Chairs as Thomas Warton...
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.
33
Dedications
Susan Tweedsmuir
ST
published the third of her own novels, The Rainbow through the Rain, which she dedicated to Elizabeth Bowen
.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
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 et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
