The Death of the Heart (Further Reading)

Further Reading

• Bloom, Harold, ed., Elizabeth Bowen, Chelsea House Publishers, 1992.

  This is a collection of critical essays on the writings of Elizabeth Bowen, edited by the esteemed critic and academician Harold Bloom.

• Bowen, Elizabeth, Graham Greene, and V. S. Pritchett, Why Do I Write: An Exchange of Views between Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, and V. S. Pritchett, M. S. G. Haskell House, 1975.

  This volume includes letters between these three literary giants on the subject of how writers live and what they think about as they go about their work.

• Halperin, John, Eminent Georgians: The Lives of King George V, Elizabeth Bowen, St. John Philby, and Nancy Astor, St. Martin's Press, Inc., 1998.

  John Halperin traces the impact these leading figures had in England between the two great wars, and examines the world of intrigue below the glittering surface of British society in the 1920s and 1930s.

• Walshe, Eibhear, ed., Elizabeth Bowen Remembered: The Farahy Addresses, Four Courts Press, 1998.

  Drawn from the annual lectures at the church in Farahy, in North Cork, where Bowen is buried, these essays provide insight into the life, fiction, and beliefs of the Anglo-Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen.