Elizabeth Bowen (1) (1899–1973)
Auteur van The Death of the Heart
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Over de Auteur
Elizabeth Bowen, distinguished Anglo-Irish novelist, was born in Dublin in 1899, traveled extensively, lived in London, and inherited the family estate-Bowen's Court, in County Cork. Her account of the house, Bowen's Court (1942), with a detailed fictionalized history of the family in Ireland toon meer through three centuries, has charm, warmth, and insight. Seven Winters is a fragment of autobiography published in England in 1942. The "Afterthoughts" of the original edition are critical essays in which she discusses and analyzes, among others, such literary figures as Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, Katherine Mansfield, Anthony Trollope, and Eudora Welty. Bowen's stories, mostly about people of the British upper middle class, portray relationships that are never simple, except, perhaps, on the surface. Her concern with time and memory is a major theme. Beautifully and delicately written, her stories, with their oblique psychological revelations, are symbolic, subtle, and terrifying. A Time in Rome (1960) is her brilliant evocation of that city and its layered past. In 1948, Bowen was made a Commander of the British Empire. Bowen died in 1973. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Werken van Elizabeth Bowen
Love's Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen and Charles Ritchie: Letters and Diaries 1941-1973 (2008) — Auteur — 70 exemplaren
Seven winters; memories of a Dublin childhood & afterthoughts, pieces on writing (1962) 15 exemplaren
Why Do I Write?: An Exchange of Views Between Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene and V.S.Pritchett (English Literature… (1948) 6 exemplaren
The Demon Lover [short story] 3 exemplaren
Mysterious Kor 3 exemplaren
Telling [short story] 2 exemplaren
Consequences: a complete story in the manner of the old parlour game in nine chapters each by a different author 2 exemplaren
The Faber book of modern stories 2 exemplaren
Sunday Afternoon 2 exemplaren
The Faber Book of Short Stories 1 exemplaar
Maria 1 exemplaar
Choice: Some New Stories and Prose 1 exemplaar
Bowen Elizabeth 1 exemplaar
Pink May 1 exemplaar
Reduced 1 exemplaar
anything 1 exemplaar
Las mujeres observadas 1 exemplaar
Die ferne Stadt Kor. Erzählungen. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Annette Charpentier, Katrine von Hutten und… (1985) 1 exemplaar
Spookverhalen 1 exemplaar
The Happy Autumn Fields 1 exemplaar
Green Holly 1 exemplaar
Contos Fantásticos 1 exemplaar
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The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: The Twentieth Century, Volume 1 (1987) — Medewerker — 77 exemplaren
The Smiles of Rome: A Literary Companion for Readers and Travelers (2005) — Medewerker — 57 exemplaren
The House of the Nightmare and Other Eerie Tales (1967) — Medewerker; Auteur, sommige edities — 47 exemplaren
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 1: The Individual and Human Values (1964) — Medewerker — 40 exemplaren
Ladies of Horror: Two Centuries of Supernatural Stories by the Gentle Sex (1971) — Medewerker — 24 exemplaren
Horizon 21 (September 1941) — Medewerker — 2 exemplaren
Uncle Silas ... With an introduction by Elizabeth Bowen — Introductie, sommige edities — 1 exemplaar
Gespenster — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Bowen, Elizabeth
- Officiële naam
- Cameron, Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Bowen, Bitha
- Geboortedatum
- 1899-06-07
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1973-02-22
- Graflocatie
- St Colman's Church, Farahy, County Cork, Ireland
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- Ierland
- Geboorteplaats
- Dublin, Ierland
- Plaats van overlijden
- Londen, Engeland, Groot-Brittannië
- Woonplaatsen
- Dublin, Ireland
Farahy, Ireland
Hythe, England, UK
Regent's Park, London, England, UK
Headington, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK - Opleiding
- Downe House School, Kent, England, UK
- Beroepen
- novelist
short story writer - Relaties
- Ritchie, Charles (lover)
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Order of the British Empire (Commander, 1948)
Companion of Literature (1965)
Doctor of Letters, Trinity College, Dublin
Doctor of Letters, Oxford University (1956)
Lacy Martin Donnelly Fellow (1956) - Korte biografie
- Elizabeth Bowen was born in Dublin in 1899, the only child of an Irish lawyer and landowner. Her book Bowen's Court (1942) is the history of her family and their house in County Cork. Throughout her life, she divided her time between London and Bowen's Court, which she inherited. She had friends among the Bloomsbury Group, and was close to Rose Macaulay, who helped her find a publisher for her first book, a collection of short stories called Encounters (1923). During World War II, Elizabeth Bowen lived in London and worked for the British Ministry of Information. She received acclaim for her novels and short story collections, was awarded the CBE (Companion of the Order of the British Empire) in 1948, and was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1965. She died in 1973.
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The heat of the day door Elizabeth Bowen
Londen in de tweede wereldoorlog. Mengeling van spionageverhaal, relatieroman. De stijlvolle, maar wat dolende Stella wordt door spookfiguur Harrison gewaarschuwd dat haar minnaar Robert een Duits spion is. Stella worstelt met de verdachtmaking. Nevenintriges rond haar zoon Roderick en zijn Ierse erfenis en het eveneens dolende arbeidersmeisje Louie. Knappe sfeerschepping. Opvallend gecondenseerde stijl, moeilijke lectuur. Als mengeling van Greene (The End of the Affaire) en Woolf een echte krachttoer… (meer)
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