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‘as though nothing were happening—or rather, not happening’ : Excess and Vacuity in The Little Girls
There's a hole in the middle of Bowen's late novel The Little Girls, literally as well as figuratively: a cavity in the ground dug by three childhood friends for the purpose of burying a secret box. Indeed, the novel is full of holes, from caves[...]Article
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This essay looks at Elizabeth Bowen's presence in The Bell during the war years. She contributed an essay, a short story, two pieces of memoir, two obituaries, and a few other, smaller pieces to the magazine, but also featured in an interview, s[...]Article
Over her career, Elizabeth Bowen published ten novels, yet she left no comprehensive theory of the novel. This essay draws especially upon ‘Notes on Writing a Novel’ (1945), ‘The Technique of the Novel’ (1953), and ‘Truth and Fiction’ (1956), as[...]Article
As a novelist preoccupied with the sexualized gothic conventions haunting Irish fiction since the eighteenth century, Bowen persistently turns to the fraught concept of British and Irish women's consent during periods of twentieth-century politi[...]Article
Over her career, Elizabeth Bowen published ten novels, yet she left no comprehensive theory of the novel. This essay draws especially upon ‘Notes on Writing a Novel’ (1945), ‘The Technique of the Novel’ (1953), and ‘Truth and Fiction’ (1956), as[...]Article
This article investigates the influence of North America on Bowen's later work. After the war, Bowen traveled to America, at least once a year, until her last illness. Yet her time in the United States has often been overlooked. In the States, s[...]Article
Ever since its publication in 1927, Elizabeth Bowen's first novel, The Hotel, has prompted critical responses that have tried to gauge the ways in which the narrative represents intimacy between women. Although one of its earliest reviewers sens[...]Article
In January 1941 Elizabeth Bowen, struggling to complete Bowen's Court, wrote to Virginia Woolf: ‘the last chapter seems to, or ought to re-write retrospectively all the rest of the book’, and also that she felt ‘despair about my own generati[...]Article
Throughout her life, Elizabeth Bowen maintained a rich network of artist friends and acquaintances. She often attended exhibitions and was an astute, sometimes caustic critic in letters as well as reviews. Her short tenure as an art student [...]
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Maggie ARMSTRONG, Auteur |A short story by Maggie Armstrong about travels in America, with boyfriend.Article
Nathan DUNNE, Auteur |A short story by Nathan Dunne : ‘Sully’s father left him for the last time on September 20, 1962’Article
Ian SANSOM, Auteur |A diary by Ian Sansom : "Sell the house, clear the shed ".Article
David RALPH, Auteur |A short story by David Ralph : "At the end of a night’s partying, truths are told".Article
Jessica TRAYNOR, Auteur |A piece of personal history by Jessica Traynor about trouble with childbirth.
