Elizabeth Bowen

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Elizabeth Bowen (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)

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Elizabeth Bowen is as well known for her ten novels as she is for her short-story collections. She also wrote books of history, travel, literary essays, personal impressions, a play, and a children’s book.

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Elizabeth Bowen’s career is distinguished by achievements on two separate, though related, fronts. On the one hand, she was among the most well-known and accomplished British women novelists of her generation, a generation which, in the period between the wars, did much to consolidate the distinctive existence of...

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• Bowen’s Court (Nonfiction)
• Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen, The (Women’s Literature)
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• Happy Autumn Fields, The (Short Stories)
• Heat of the Day, The (Masterplots Classics)
• Heat of the Day, The (Women’s Literature)
• Heat of the Day, The (Character Profiles)
• Heat of the Day, The (Literary Places)
• Her Table Spread (Short Stories)
• House in Paris, The (Masterplots Classics)
• House in Paris, The (Character Profiles)
• House in Paris, The (Literary Places)
• Ivy Gripped the Steps (Short Stories)
• Little Girls, The (British Fiction)
• Little Girls, The (Character Profiles)
• Mulberry Tree, The (Magill Book Reviews)
• Mysterious Kor (Short Stories)
• Queer Heart, A (Short Stories)
• Summer Night, A (Short Stories)
• Tears, Idle Tears (Short Stories)
• World of Love, A (British Fiction)
• World of Love, A (Character Profiles)
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• Supernatural Story, The (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)
• Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)