Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Bowen, CBE was an AngloIrish novelist and short story writer.

Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen was born onJune 1899 atHerbert Place in Dublin and baptised in the nearby St Stephens Church on Upper Mount Street. Her parents, Henry Charles Cole Bowen and Florence Bowen later brought her to Bowens Court at Farahy, near Kildorrery, County Cork, where she spent her summers. When her father became mentally ill in 1907, she and her mother moved to England, eventually settling in Hythe. After her mother died in 1912 Bowen was brought up by her aunts. She was educated at Downe House School under the headship of Olive Willis. After some time at art school in London she decided that her talent lay in writing. She mixed with the Bloomsbury Group, becoming good friends with Rose Macaulay who helped her seek out a publisher for her first book, a collection of short stories entitled Encounters .

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