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ELIZABETH BOWEN (1899-1973), a central figure in London literary society, who counted among her friends Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene, is widely considered to be one of the most distinguished novelists of the modern era, combining psychological realism with an unparalleled gift for poetic impressionism. Born in Dublin in 1899, the only child of an Irish lawyer/landowner and his wife, Bowen spent her early summers on the family's estate in County Cork. Called Bowen's Court, the house and its land were the direct inspiration for the setting of Danielstown in The Last September.
Among the most notable books of her long and prolific career were: Joining Charles (1929); Friends and Relations (stories, 1931); To the North (1932); The Cat Jumps (stories, 1934); The House in Paris (1935); The Death of the Heart (1938); Look at All Those Roses (stories, 1941); Bowen's Court (memoir, 1943); The Demon Lover (stories, 1945); The Heat of the Day (1949); A World of Love (1955); A Time in Rome (1960); Eva Trout (1969); and the posthumously published collection, Pictures and Conversations (1975).
In addition to her books, Bowen lectured widely and was a frequent contributor to such periodicals as the New Statesman and The Nation, Tatler, the Saturday Review of Literature, The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine and Harper's.
Anonymous
Posted February 7, 2010
This story moved at a fast pace for me because always in the background of these characters' lives is the suspense of a future of turbulence, a future that most of them do not foresee. They don't realize that they're resented by their long time Irish neighbors and treated in a condescending manner by them, never a thought that these neighbors who they've known for years might be plotting against them. They are unknowingly being enclosed in a world of danger, a world they thought was theirs, the English world in Ireland just before the Irish war for independence. The author tells the reader all this through her characters, their conversations, their thoughts. I thought this author's writing style was a unique and interesting way to write about this time in Ireland's history.
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ELIZABETH BOWEN (1899-1973), a central figure in London literary society, who counted among her friends Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene, is widely considered to be one of the most distinguished novelists of the modern era, combining psychological realism with an unparalleled gift for poetic impressionism. Born in Dublin in 1899, the only child of an Irish lawyer/landowner and his wife, Bowen spent her early summers on the family's ...