Author · Ireland
Elizabeth Bowen
Died in 1973
Elizabeth Bowen was born on 7 June 1899 in Dublin, into the Anglo-Irish gentry. Her father fell ill when she was seven; she went to England with her mother, who died a few years later, and grew up with relatives. She inherited Bowen's Court, the family house in County Cork. During the Second World War, she worked in London for the British Ministry of Information, which asked her to report on Irish opinion. She died in London on 22 February 1973.
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- NovelThe Heat of the DayElizabeth Bowen · 1949Literature