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The Elizabeth Bowen Society

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What A Charming House@whatacharminghouse.bsky.social · 2w ago

I think Bowen’s real is the very unreal (to others) of what happens when the brain connects one sense to another. All her strangeness of style was the landscape she saw and transcribed, and left us to disentangle, but also share in her experience.

Michael Waldron@michaelwaldron.bsky.social · last mo.

The annual service commemorating #ElizabethBowen takes place today in North Cork. Always worth venturing out for this special occasion and Dr Mary Breen, this year’s speaker, will be brilliant!

The Elizabeth Bowen Society@bowensociety.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Annual service, in commem of Elizabeth Bowen, Sun 13th Sep, St Colman’s Church Farahy, 3.30pm. Speaker: Dr Mary Breen, former Lecturer at the Department of English, UCC. Service by The Rev’d Dr R. B MacCarthy. The Clerks Choral led by Mr Colin Nicholls and Dr Ian Sexton. Tea after in Doneraile.

Michael Waldron@michaelwaldron.bsky.social · last mo.

Fond memories of delivering my own #ElizabethBowen address in that first pandemic year of 2020. Very grateful to @bowensociety.bsky.social for sharing it in their podcast series, which you can listen back to below. podcastaddict.com/podcast/the-...

The Bowen Society Podcast

Listen to The Bowen Society Podcast on Podcast Addict. This podcast contains interviews and discussions connected with Elizabeth Bowen and her writing. It is produced by The Elizabeth Bowen Society whose aims are to increase the audience for one of the greatest fiction writers in English of the twentieth century, bring her to new readers, and increase opportunities for scholarship.

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The Elizabeth Bowen Society@bowensociety.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Annual service, in commem of Elizabeth Bowen, Sun 13th Sep, St Colman’s Church Farahy, 3.30pm. Speaker: Dr Mary Breen, former Lecturer at the Department of English, UCC. Service by The Rev’d Dr R. B MacCarthy. The Clerks Choral led by Mr Colin Nicholls and Dr Ian Sexton. Tea after in Doneraile.

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The Elizabeth Bowen Society@bowensociety.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Published in 1977, Victoria Glendinning’s *Elizabeth Bowen: A Biography* is praised as a sharp, elegant portrait. Critics say it captures Bowen’s social brilliance and inner passions, but the author later reflected that tight controls from Bowen's literary executor left the texture somewhat thin.

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The Elizabeth Bowen Society@bowensociety.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In Woman's World, Ann Patchett shared, re. Bowen, “Louise Erdrich said, ‘The book that I reread every year is Elizabeth Bowen’s The Death of the Heart.’ So I thought the universe is telling me to read it...It’s beautiful. It should be up there with those books that everybody reads.”

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The Elizabeth Bowen Society@bowensociety.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Have you always wanted to visit Elizabeth Bowen’s grave? You can, while also enjoying Choral Evensong in her memory on 13th Sep. 2026 at St Colman’s Church, Farahy, Co. Cork. 3.30pm. The guest speaker will be Bowen Society Board member Ian d’Alton.

Richard Morris@ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 3mo ago

How well André Durand's picture (1969) shows Elizabeth Bowen: novelist, short story writer, an acute observer both of the natural world and of human emotions. She published ten novels including 'The Heat of the Day' (1949), a portrayal of life in London during WW2.

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Michael Waldron@michaelwaldron.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Although I’ve always loved this portrait, #ElizabethBowen had a violent hatred for it. I’ve written on this in the context of Bowen and the visual arts for a special issue of @irishunireview.bsky.social. www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/... @bowensociety.bsky.social

‘The wish to paint’: Bowen and the Visual Arts | Irish University Review

Throughout her life, Elizabeth Bowen maintained a rich network of artist friends and acquaintances. She often attended exhibitions and was an astute, sometimes caustic critic in letters as well as rev...

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Richard Morris@ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 3mo ago

How well André Durand's picture (1969) shows Elizabeth Bowen: novelist, short story writer, an acute observer both of the natural world and of human emotions. She published ten novels including 'The Heat of the Day' (1949), a portrayal of life in London during WW2.

The Elizabeth Bowen Society@bowensociety.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Times Now features The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen in '10 Books To Read When You Feel Like Giving Up'. 'Bowen captures heartbreak, betrayal, and vulnerability with extraordinary psychological insight, but she also reveals the resilience hidden beneath innocence.'

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The Elizabeth Bowen Society@bowensociety.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Bowen's short fiction collection *Ann Lee’s* was published in 1926. Here's part of a contemporary NYT review: 'The eleven stories of Elizabeth Bowen, in "Ann Lee's," recall the crisp, allusive wit of Viola Meynell, the talent for implying minor antagonisms of Katherine Mansfield.' More @ our insta.

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