Bowen’s Court (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Elizabeth Bowen
- First Published: 1942
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1441-1941
- Setting: Ireland
- Principal Characters: Elizabeth Bowen, Colonel Bowen, John Bowen I, John Bowen II, Henry II, Henry III, Henry IV, Henry V, Robert, Henry VI
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Family or family life, Parents and children, Manners or customs, Social life, Biography, Modernization, Middle age
Form and Content
Significant for its insights into the concerns of Elizabeth Bowen’s fiction, Bowen’s Court, written during the war years between 1939 and 1941, is that rare book in which an author successfully weaves the saga of a family into the fabric of the history of a culture and a country. In the book Elizabeth Bowen portrays the generations of the Bowen family against the tragic tapestry of Irish history, creating in the process an elegy for a way of life that could not survive the encroachments of progress and industrialization.
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