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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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...
Literary responses Margery Allingham
This novel was scorned by crime reviewers but praised for imagination and dramatic power by such discriminating critics as Elizabeth Bowen .
Martin, Richard. Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham. UMI Research Press.
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Paul Reynolds , MA 's US agent, wrote, I found it difficult...
Literary responses Margery Allingham
Early critics of MA 's work saw her as a young revitaliser of the detective form, along with Nicholas Blake and Michael Innes. Later she was linked with the slightly older Dorothy Sayers and...

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