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About Elizabeth Bowen

Birth

1899

Death

1973

First book

1923

Years writing

103

Biography

Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer notable for her books about "the Big House" of Irish landed Protestants as well as her fiction about life in wartime London.

Elizabeth Bowen was born in Dublin and became one of the most refined voices in Anglo-Irish literature.

Her masterpiece, The Death of the Heart, is an essential benchmark of 20th-century narrative.

Throughout her prolific career, Bowen published a total of 157 works exploring social life and customs.

Her novels, such as The Heat of the Day, masterfully capture the complexity of human relationships.

Known to her inner circle as Bitha, her literary legacy remains fundamental to understanding modern fiction.

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