Home
Results for: Elizabeth Bowen
Britannica Conci...(1 of 7 sources) Open/Close data Source
Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen
(born June 7, 1899, Dublin, Ire. — died Feb. 22, 1973, London, Eng.) Irish-born British novelist and short-story writer. Among her novels are The House in Paris (1935), The Death of the Heart (1938), and The Heat of the Day (1949). Her short-story collections include The Demon Lover (1945). Her finely wrought prose style frequently details uneasy and unfulfilling relationships among the upper middle class. Her essays appear in Collected Impressions (1950) and Afterthought (1962).

For more information on Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen, visit Britannica.com.

logo Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. © 1994-2012 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. All rights reserved.

Biographies Open/Close data Source
Irish Literature Open/Close data Source
Columbia Ency. Open/Close data Source
Quotes By Open/Close data Source
Wikipedia Open/Close data Source
Mentioned In Open/Close data Source