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.
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Lassner, Phyllis. Elizabeth Bowen. Twayne.
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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
Literary responses Virginia Woolf
Leonard Woolf , reading the typescript of this novel at the end of February 1941, judged it to be more vigorous and pulled together than most of her other books, to have more depth and...
Friends, Associates Virginia Woolf
VW met Elizabeth Bowen , beginning a friendship that would continue until the former's death.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
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Health Virginia Woolf
But it is difficult to mark precisely when she moved to a depressed and then to a suicidal state. Elizabeth Bowen last visited VW on 13 and 14 February, and later recalled: I remember her...

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