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A Short Biography of Elizabeth Bowen

Author Name:

Elizabeth Bowen

Born As:

Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen

Other Names:

Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen

Born:

1899

Died:

1973




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Novelist and writer                          
Selected Works:

Novels:

The Hotel - 1927
The Last September - 1929
Friends and Relations - 1931
To the North - 1932
The House in Paris - 1935
The Death of the Heart - 1939
The Heat of the Day - 1949
A World of Love - 1955
The Little Girls - 1964
The Good Tiger - 1965
Eva Trout - 1968

Short stories:

Encounters - 1923
Joining Charles and Other Stories - 1929
The Cat Jumps and Other Stories - 1934
The Easter Egg Party - 1938 in The London Mercury
Look At All Those Roses - 1941
The Demon Lover and Other Stories - 1945
Stories by Elizabeth Bowen - 1959
A Day in the Dark and Other Stories - 1965
The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen - 1980
Elizabeth Bowen’s Irish Stories - 1978

Non-fiction:

Bowen's Court - 1942
Seven Winters: Memories of a Dublin Childhood - 1942
English Novelists - 1942
Anthony Trollope: A New Judgement - 1946
Why Do I Write: An Exchange of Views between Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene and V.S. Pritchett - 1948
Collected Impressions - 1950
The Shelbourne - 1951
A Time in Rome - 1960
Afterthought: Pieces About Writing - 1962
Pictures and Conversations (- 1975
The Mulberry Tree - 1999.                          
Husband Alan Cameron, described as a  as "a sexless but contented union". She had various extra-marital relationships, including one with Charles Ritchie, a Canadian diplomat seven years her junior, which lasted over thirty years. She also had an affair with the Irish writer Sean O Faolain and at least one lesbian entanglement, with the American poet, May Sarton.