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Elizabeth Bowen was born in Dublin in 1899, the only child of an Irish lawyer and land-owner. She was awarded the CBE in 1948, and received honorary degrees from Trinity College, Dublin in 1949, and from Oxford University in 1956. The Royal Society of Literature made her a Companion of Literature in 1965. Elizabeth Bowen died in 1973.
Awards: James Tait Black (1969) see all
Genres: Literary Fiction
Novels
The Hotel (1927)
The Last September (1929)
Friends and Relations (1931)
To the North (1932)
The House in Paris (1935)
The Death of the Heart (1938)
The Heat of the Day (1948)
The Shelbourne (1951)
A World of Love (1955)
The Little Girls (1964)
The Good Tiger (1965)
Eva Trout (1968)
The Last September (1929)
Friends and Relations (1931)
To the North (1932)
The House in Paris (1935)
The Death of the Heart (1938)
The Heat of the Day (1948)
The Shelbourne (1951)
A World of Love (1955)
The Little Girls (1964)
The Good Tiger (1965)
Eva Trout (1968)
Collections
Encounters (1923)
Ann Lee's (1926)
Joining Charles (1929)
The Cat Jumps (1934)
Look at All Those Roses (1941)
The Demon Lover (1945)
Ivy Griped the Steps (1946)
Selected Stories (1946)
Stories by Elizabeth Bowen (1959)
A Day in the Dark (1965)
The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen (1980)
The Bazaar and Other Stories (2008)
The Selected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen (2023)
Stories for Winter (2023) (with others)
Ann Lee's (1926)
Joining Charles (1929)
The Cat Jumps (1934)
Look at All Those Roses (1941)
The Demon Lover (1945)
Ivy Griped the Steps (1946)
Selected Stories (1946)
Stories by Elizabeth Bowen (1959)
A Day in the Dark (1965)
The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen (1980)
The Bazaar and Other Stories (2008)
The Selected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen (2023)
Stories for Winter (2023) (with others)
Non fiction show
Books containing stories by Elizabeth Bowen
Haunters at the Hearth (2022)
Eerie Tales for Christmas Nights
(British Library Tales of the Weird, book 34)
edited by
Lucy Evans and Tanya Kirk
Chill Tidings (2020)
Dark Tales of the Christmas Season
(British Library Tales of the Weird, book 19)
edited by
Tanya Kirk
Into the London Fog (2020)
Eerie Tales from the Weird City
(British Library Tales of the Weird, book 16)
edited by
Elizabeth Dearnley
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Elizabeth Bowen recommends
The Military Orchid and Other Novels (2002)
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Dangerous Calm (1995)
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"Not a tale here fails to expand in the imagination of the reader."
The Chateau (1961)
William Maxwell
"I can think of few novels... that have such romantic authority as The Chateau, fewer still so adult in vitality, so alight with humor."
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