Bowen, Elizabeth Dorothea Cole
Bowen, Elizabeth Dorothea Cole ( 1899 – 1973 ),Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer. Born in Dublin, she spent much of her childhood at the family home in Co. Cork which she inherited in 1930 and described in Bowen's Court ( 1942 ). In 1923 she published her first collection of short stories, Encounters, and married Alan Cameron. They lived for ten years in London, vividly evoked in many of her works; her skill in describing landscape, both urban and rural, and her sensitivity to changes of light and season are distinguishing features of her prose. Her novels include The Hotel ( 1927 ), The Last September ( 1929 ), The House in Paris ( 1935 ), A World of Love ( 1955 ), and Eva Trout ( 1969 ). The best-known are probably The Death of the Heart ( 1938 ) and The Heat of the Day ( 1949 ). The first (which clearly demonstrates her debt to H. James ) is the...
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