Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen (June 7, 1899 - February 22, 1973) was an Irish novelist and short story writer. Bowen was born in Dublin but when her father became mentally ill in 1907, she and her mother moved to London. After her mother died in 1912, Bowen was brought up by her aunts.

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She was educated at Doune House, Kent, Trinity College Dublin and the University of Oxford. She mixed with the Bloomsbury group, becoming good friends with Rose Macaulay, who helped her find a publisher for her first book, Encounters (1923).

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Bowen inherited her family home, Bowen's Court in County Cork, in 1930, but remained in England until she was posted to Dublin by the British Ministry of Information in 1940. Her work entailed sending back reports on Irish opinion of the war. She finally moved to Bowen's Court in 1952, but the house was knocked down seven years later. Bowen died in London.

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