Elizabeth Bowen was born in Dublin in 1899, the only child of an Irish lawyer and land-owner. She was awarded the CBE in 1948, and received honorary degrees from Trinity College, Dublin in 1949, and from Oxford University in 1956. The Royal Society of Literature made her a Companion of Literature in 1965. Elizabeth Bowen died in 1973.
Novels
The Hotel (1927)
The Last September (1929)
Friends and Relations (1931)
To the North (1932)
The House in Paris (1935)
The Death of the Heart (1938)
The Heat of the Day (1948)
The Shelbourne (1951)
A World of Love (1955)
The Little Girls (1964)
The Good Tiger (1965)
Eva Trout (1968)
The Last September (1929)
Friends and Relations (1931)
To the North (1932)
The House in Paris (1935)
The Death of the Heart (1938)
The Heat of the Day (1948)
The Shelbourne (1951)
A World of Love (1955)
The Little Girls (1964)
The Good Tiger (1965)
Eva Trout (1968)
Collections
Encounters (1923)
Ann Lee's (1926)
Joining Charles (1929)
The Cat Jumps (1934)
Look at All Those Roses (1941)
The Demon Lover (1945)
Ivy Griped the Steps (1946)
Selected Stories (1946)
Stories by Elizabeth Bowen (1959)
A Day in the Dark (1965)
The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen (1981)
The Bazaar and Other Stories (2008)
Ann Lee's (1926)
Joining Charles (1929)
The Cat Jumps (1934)
Look at All Those Roses (1941)
The Demon Lover (1945)
Ivy Griped the Steps (1946)
Selected Stories (1946)
Stories by Elizabeth Bowen (1959)
A Day in the Dark (1965)
The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen (1981)
The Bazaar and Other Stories (2008)
Non fiction
Bowen's Court (1942)
Seven Winters (1942)
Anthony Trollope (1945) (with Victoria Glendinning)
English Novelists (1946)
Why Do I Write (1948) (with Graham Greene and V S Pritchett)
Collected Impressions (1950)
A Time in Rome (1960)
Afterthought (1962)
Seven Winters and After-thoughts (1962)
Pictures and Conversations (1974)
The Heritage of British Literature (1983) (with Anthony Burgess, Lord David Cecil, Graham Greene and Kate O'Brien)
The Mulberry Tree (1986)
Notes on Eire, Espionage Reports to Winston Churchill, 1940-2 (1989)
Selected Letters of Elizabeth Bowen (2003)
Seven Winters (1942)
Anthony Trollope (1945) (with Victoria Glendinning)
English Novelists (1946)
Why Do I Write (1948) (with Graham Greene and V S Pritchett)
Collected Impressions (1950)
A Time in Rome (1960)
Afterthought (1962)
Seven Winters and After-thoughts (1962)
Pictures and Conversations (1974)
The Heritage of British Literature (1983) (with Anthony Burgess, Lord David Cecil, Graham Greene and Kate O'Brien)
The Mulberry Tree (1986)
Notes on Eire, Espionage Reports to Winston Churchill, 1940-2 (1989)
Selected Letters of Elizabeth Bowen (2003)
Anthologies containing stories by Elizabeth Bowen
The Black Cap (1927)
Shudders (1929)
When Churchyards Yawn (1931)
The Silver Ship (1932)
A Century of Creepy Stories (1934)
And the Darkness Falls (1946)
The Second Ghost Book (1952)
The 3rd Ghost Book (1955)
Spine Chillers (1961)
The Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1966)
The House of the Nightmare (1967)
Ten From the Twenties (1975)
Haunted Houses (1983)
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996)
Nightshade (2000)
Shudders (1929)
When Churchyards Yawn (1931)
The Silver Ship (1932)
A Century of Creepy Stories (1934)
And the Darkness Falls (1946)
The Second Ghost Book (1952)
The 3rd Ghost Book (1955)
Spine Chillers (1961)
The Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1966)
The House of the Nightmare (1967)
Ten From the Twenties (1975)
Haunted Houses (1983)
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996)
Nightshade (2000)
Short stories
| Brigands | |||
| The Claimant | |||
| Songs My Father Sang Me | |||
| All Saints (1923) | |||
| Breakfast (1923) | |||
| Coming Home (1923) | |||
| The Confidante (1923) | |||
| Daffodils (1923) | |||
| The Evil That Men Do- (1923) | |||
| The Lover (1923) | |||
| Lunch (1923) | |||
| Mrs Windermere (1923) | |||
| The New House (1923) | |||
| Requiescat (1923) | |||
| The Return (1923) | |||
| The Shadowy Third (1923) | |||
| Sunday Evening (1923) | |||
| Ann Lee's [short story] (1924) | |||
| The Contessina (1924) | |||
| Making Arrangements (1925) | |||
| The Parrot (1925) | |||
| The Back Drawing-Room (1926) | |||
| Charity (1926) | |||
| Human Habitation (1926) | |||
| Recent Photograph (1926) | |||
| The Secession (1926) | |||
| The Storm (1926) | |||
| The Visitor (1926) | |||
| Telling (1927) | |||
| Aunt Tatty (1929) | |||
| The Cassowary (1929) | |||
| The Cat Jumps [short story] (1929) | |||
| The Dancing-Mistress (1929) | |||
| Dead Mabelle (1929) | |||
| Foothold (1929) | |||
| Joining Charles [short story] (1929) | |||
| The Jungle (1929) | |||
| Mrs Moysey (1929) | |||
| Shoes: An International Episode (1929) | |||
| The Working Party (1929) | |||
| Her Table Spread (1930) | |||
| The Apple Tree (1931) | |||
| The Disinherited (1934) | |||
| Firelight in the Flat (1934) | |||
| The Good Girl (1934) | |||
| The Last Night in the Old Home (1934) | |||
| The Little Girl's Room (1934) | |||
| The Man of the Family (1934) | |||
| Maria (1934) | |||
| The Needlecase (1934) | |||
| The Tommy Crans (1934) | |||
| Reduced (1935) | |||
| Love (1939) | |||
| No. 16 (1939) | |||
| Attractive Modern Homes (1941) | |||
| Careless Talk (1941) | |||
| The Easter Egg Party (1941) | |||
| The Girl with the Stoop (1941) | |||
| In the Square (1941) | |||
| Look at All Those Roses [short story] (1941) | |||
| A Love Story (1941) | |||
| Oh, Madam... (1941) | |||
| A Queer Heart (1941) | |||
| Summer Night (1941) | |||
| Sunday Afternoon (1941) | |||
| Tears, Idle Tears (1941) | |||
| Unwelcome Idea (1941) | |||
| A Walk in the Woods (1941) | |||
| The Cheery Soul (1942) | |||
| Green Holly (1944) | |||
| The Happy Autumn Fields (1944) | |||
| The Inherited Clock (1944) | |||
| Mysterious Kor (1944) | |||
| I Hear You Say So (1945) | |||
| Ivy Gripped the Steps (1945) | |||
| Pink May (1945) | |||
| Gone Away (1946) | |||
| Hand in Glove (1952) | |||
| A Day in the Dark [short story] (1956) | |||
| The Dolt's Tale (1965) |
Awards
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Books about Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen (1952) by Jocelyn Brooke
Elizabeth Bowen (1993) by Victoria Glendinning
Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel (1994) by Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle
Elizabeth Bowen (1999) by Hermione Lee
The Later Fiction of Elizabeth Bowen (2001) by Lis Christensen
Elizabeth Bowen (1993) by Victoria Glendinning
Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel (1994) by Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle
Elizabeth Bowen (1999) by Hermione Lee
The Later Fiction of Elizabeth Bowen (2001) by Lis Christensen
Elizabeth Bowen recommends
Crewe Train (1926)
Rose Macaulay
"One of the few authors of whom it may be said she adorns our century."
The Chateau (1961)
William Maxwell
"I can think of few novels... that have such romantic authority as The Chateau, fewer still so adult in vitality, so alight with humor."
Dangerous Calm (1995)
Elizabeth Taylor
"Not a tale here fails to expand in the imagination of the reader."
The Military Orchid and Other Novels (2002)
Jocelyn Brooke
"Jocelyn Brooke's writing is imaginatively unique ... a great writer."
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