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Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Bowen was born in Dublin in 1899, the only child of an Irish lawyer and landowner. She wrote many acclaimed novels and short story collections, was awarded the CBE in 1948, and was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1965. 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 died in 1973.

The Last September; The Death of the Heart
The Hotel
Friends and Relations
Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen
The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen
To the North
The Little Girls
A World of Love
Eva Trout
The Heat of the Day
The House in Paris
The Death of the Heart
The Last September

Books

The Last September; The Death of the Heart
The Hotel
Friends and Relations
Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen
The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen
To the North
The Little Girls
A World of Love
Eva Trout
The Heat of the Day
The House in Paris
The Death of the Heart
The Last September

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