Elizabeth Bowen (1) (1899–1973)
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A propos de l'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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins
Œuvres de Elizabeth Bowen
Love's Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen and Charles Ritchie: Letters and Diaries 1941-1973 (2008) — Auteur — 70 exemplaires
Seven winters; memories of a Dublin childhood & afterthoughts, pieces on writing (1962) 15 exemplaires
Why Do I Write?: An Exchange of Views Between Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene and V.S.Pritchett (English Literature… (1948) 6 exemplaires
Elizabeth Bowen: Notes on Eire, Espionage Reports to Winston Churchill, 1940-42 (1999) 4 exemplaires
The Demon Lover [short story] 3 exemplaires
Mysterious Kor 3 exemplaires
Telling [short story] 2 exemplaires
Consequences: a complete story in the manner of the old parlour game in nine chapters each by a different author 2 exemplaires
The Faber book of modern stories 2 exemplaires
Sunday Afternoon 2 exemplaires
The Faber Book of Short Stories 1 exemplaire
Maria 1 exemplaire
Choice: Some New Stories and Prose 1 exemplaire
Bowen Elizabeth 1 exemplaire
Pink May 1 exemplaire
Reduced 1 exemplaire
anything 1 exemplaire
Las mujeres observadas 1 exemplaire
Die ferne Stadt Kor. Erzählungen. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Annette Charpentier, Katrine von Hutten und… (1985) 1 exemplaire
Spookverhalen 1 exemplaire
The Happy Autumn Fields 1 exemplaire
Green Holly 1 exemplaire
Contos Fantásticos 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: The Twentieth Century, Volume 1 (1987) — Contributeur — 76 exemplaires
The Smiles of Rome: A Literary Companion for Readers and Travelers (2005) — Contributeur — 57 exemplaires
The House of the Nightmare and Other Eerie Tales (1967) — Contributeur; Auteur, quelques éditions — 46 exemplaires
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 1: The Individual and Human Values (1964) — Contributeur — 40 exemplaires
Ladies of Horror: Two Centuries of Supernatural Stories by the Gentle Sex (1971) — Contributeur — 24 exemplaires
Het neusje van de zalm een feestelijke bloemlezing uit Querido's 'vlaggetjesreeks' (1986) — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires
Horizon 21 (September 1941) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Uncle Silas ... With an introduction by Elizabeth Bowen — Introduction, quelques éditions — 1 exemplaire
Gespenster — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Bowen, Elizabeth
- Nom légal
- Cameron, Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen
- Autres noms
- Bowen, Bitha
- Date de naissance
- 1899-06-07
- Date de décès
- 1973-02-22
- Lieu de sépulture
- St Colman's Church, Farahy, County Cork, Ireland
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Ierland
- Lieu de naissance
- Dublin, Ierland
- Lieu du décès
- Londen, Engeland, Groot-Brittannië
- Lieux de résidence
- Dublin, Ireland
Farahy, Ireland
Hythe, England, UK
Regent's Park, London, England, UK
Headington, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK - Études
- Downe House School, Kent, England, UK
- Professions
- novelist
short story writer - Relations
- Ritchie, Charles (lover)
- Prix et distinctions
- 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) - Courte biographie
- 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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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 73
- Aussi par
- 77
- Membres
- 8,079
- Popularité
- #2,998
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 170
- ISBN
- 266
- Langues
- 8
- Favoris
- 16
Elizabeth Bowen born in Dublin, Ireland is an Anglo/Irish author. This was her fifth novel.
Plot/Setting: the setting is one day in the house in Paris, two children meet. Henrietta who is on her way to meet her grandmother and Leopold who is supposed to meet his birth mother for the first time.
Structure: the book is divided in to three; first and third part are titled present. The middle part is the past which explores the background of Leopold's mother through the imaginary (fictitious memory) or Leopold. In the middle section we visit London and Naomi and Karen and Max. A triangle. Max and Karen scene in the back garden, Naomi serving tea. The blades of grass standing back up. The sunlight through the tree. A lot of interesting stuff in this middle section.
The third section opens back with "Your mother is not coming". Ms Fisher tells Leopold the truth. Leopold meets Ray.
This is a five star book, highly recommended and deserving to be owned and annotated.… (plus d'informations)