Bowen, Elizabeth (Vol. 6) - Bowen, Elizabeth 1899–1973
Bowen, Elizabeth 1899–1973
Elizabeth Bowen was an Irish-born English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. A master of the traditional novel, Ms Bowen has received less general recognition than critics believe she deserves. The House in Paris, The Death of the Heart, The Little Girls, and Eva Trout are her finest novels, Ms Bowen was awarded the C.B.E. (Commander, Order of the British Empire) in 1948. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 17-18; obituary, Vols. 41-44; Contemporary Authors Permanent Series, Vol. 2.)
[Miss Bowen] did not intend ["Pictures and Conversations"] to be an autobiography in the accepted sense. (It got its title from "Alice in Wonderland.") It was not to follow a time sequence, and "it will be anything but all inclusive." Rather, "the underlying theme—to which the book will owe what it is necessary that a book should have, continuity—will be the relationship (so far as that can be...
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