⭐️ SAVE the DATE ⭐️
The Bowen Society in association with @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social are holding a Bowen symposium in Dublin, Ireland, on 6th June 2026. In person & online.
Booking link soon!
#whybowenmatters #ElizabethBowen #ElizabethBowenSociety
In the new Modernist Review, from PhDer Tabitha Rowland: 'The Female Network: Gossip in the Life and Works of Elizabeth Bowen'.
Aims is to show that gossip is essential in the formation and potential destruction of identities and communities.
#modernistreview #tabitharowland #ElizabethBowen
Book Feature:
The Irish Proust: Cultural Crossings from Beckett to McGahern (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025) includes 2 chapters about Bowen – “Bowen after Proust” by Isabelle Serça and “‘A Very Dangerous Influence’: Elizabeth Bowen and Marcel Proust” by Heather Ingman.
Bookish checkpoint!
📚 Last read: Patricia McKissack "The Dark-Thirty"
📚 Current read: "The Man in My Basement" by Walter Mosley
📚 Last added to your TBR: "Anarchitect" (Matta-Clark) by various
📚 Next read: "The Heat of the Day" by Elizabeth Bowen (cc:
@bowensociety.bsky.social
)
#booksky
🐣 Happy Easter from the Bowen Society 🐣
From Bowen's story, 'The Easter Egg Party':
"The glossy blues, the faint greens, the waxy buff-pinks, the freckles seemed to her to be for nothing: while the sisters, breathless...’"
Book Feature - *Elizabeth Bowen in Context*, ed. by Allan Hepburn.
Fr. @universitypress.cambridge.org
'*Elizabeth Bowen in Context* came into being because of the diversity and range of scholarship on her fiction that has emerged in the past couple decades. '
More here: share.google/eGtemIkmxXij...
Save the date! Next Reading Group: 27th May 7pm GMT, online.
We're reading *The Shelbourne* by Elizabeth Bowen, in which she takes us on an evocative tour through the history of the landmark Dublin hotel.
#ShelbourneHotel
Tonight!! Online & all welcome 🙌
Bowen Essay Competition 2026
⭐️DEADLINE 30th Sep. 2026⭐️
The editors of the Elizabeth Bowen Review invites undergrad and postgrad students to submit essays that focus on Bowen’s life or work.
4,000 wds
More info: Dr Nick Turner / Dr Nicola Darwood, at
bowen @ beds .ac .uk
The Innocent Canadian is John Delacourt’s new novel, based on C Ritchie & E Bowen, re-cast as Colette Cluny-Wolseley. 'Part romance, part murder story, part spy thriller, part social satire, and part historical reflection'
Timely, we discuss É Walshe's novel 2moro. @49thshelf.bsky.social
Last call for The Last Day!
Bowen Reading Group: 25th Mar. 7pm GMT, online.
All welcome!
*The Last Day at Bowen's Court* by the late #eibhearwalshe, explores Bowen's rich and complex life, & particularly her long love affair.
www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...
☘️ Happy St Patrick's Day from the Bowen Society ☘️
'...though one can be callous in Ireland one cannot be wholly opaque or material. An unearthly disturbance works in the spirit; reason can never reconcile one to life; nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.' Elizabeth Bowen
We are reading this beautiful novel at the mo, ahead of our Reading Group: 25th Mar. 7pm GMT, online.
Booking link below. All welcome!
*The Last Day at Bowen's Court* by the late #eibhearwalshe, explores Bowen's rich and complex life, & a long love affair.
www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...
Booking link, March Reading Group: 25th, 7pm GMT, online.
*The Last Day at Bowen's Court* by #eibhearwalshe, exploring Bowen's complex life, particularly the love rectangle she formed w/ her lover Charles Ritchie, his wife Sylvia, and EB's husband Alan Cameron.
www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...
One of the true giants of modernism.
Elizabeth Bowen died #otd in 1973, in University College Hospital, London, aged 73.
She is buried with her husband in St Colman's churchyard in Farahy, Co. Cork, close to the gates of her family seat, Bowen's Court.
💗 Happy Valentine's Day 💗
'I am torn and demented by longing for you...I think you *are* my soul.' Elizabeth Bowen, in a letter to Charles Ritchie, April 1950.
The lost, lovely Bowen's Court. It's in our next Reading Group pick *The Last Day at Bowen's Court* by the late #eibhearwalshe, in which he explored the love rectangle EB formed with her lover Charles Ritchie, his wife Sylvia, and EB's husband Alan Cameron.
25th Mar, 7pm GMT, online. Link soon.
Save the date! Next Reading Group: 25th March GMT, online.
We're reading *The Last Day at Bowen's Court* by the late, lovely #eibhearwalshe, in which he explored Bowen's rich and complex life, & the love rectangle she formed with her lover Charles Ritchie, his wife Sylvia, & EB's husband Alan.
Reminder for our Elizabeth Bowen Society Reading Group, 28th Jan, Weds, 7pm GMT.
www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...
Blue Monday today but remember the ticket link is live for our discussion of Bowen's *Love's Civil War* online, 28th January.
7pm, GMT.
All are welcome to join our free, online reading group to discuss this brilliant read.
www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...
Book at the link below!
buytickets.at/elizabethbow...
Book your place - link below & join us online for the Elizabeth Bowen Reading Group, Wednesday, 28th January, 7pm GMT, as we discuss *Love’s Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen and Charles Ritchie, Letters and Diaries 1941–1973*, ed V Glendinning in collab w/ Robertson.
www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...
Proposals invited: special issue: *Feminist Modernist Exiles*, to show how women’s ongoing experiences of transnational, transcultural, and translingual experiences in voluntary and involuntary exile continue to generate new forms of feminist modernism.
Info: phyllisl @ northwestern .edu
Please join us online for the Elizabeth Bowen Reading Group, Wednesday, 28th January, 7pm GMT, as we discuss *Love’s Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen and Charles Ritchie, Letters and Diaries 1941–1973*, edited by Victoria Glendinning in collab with Judith Robertson.
www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...
The Bowen Society wishes all its friends & followers a Happy New Year.
Join us for our next Reading Group meeting, to chat about *Love's Civil War* ed. by Victoria Glendinning.
Online, 28th Jan., 7pm GMT. Link to follow.
The festive front image of the Elizabeth Bowen to Elizabeth Taylor Christmas card, owned by #machenbachsbooks 🎄
'Around Christmas, the sun rises late behind a group of elms some way up the lawn in front of the house, casting the shadows of the tree trunks in spokes, fanwise, toward the door. Seldom does snow fall: everything is shining and moist and still...' EB on Bowen’s Court at Xmas
A Christmas card from Elizabeth Bowen to writer Elizabeth Taylor, sold with a copy of Bowen's Court at Jonkers Auctioneers.
We've such a treat for our Jan. Reading Group, the great *Love's Civil War* ed. Victoria Glendinning.
Online, 28th Jan, 7pm GMT. Link anon.
This book explores the letters and diaries of Elizabeth Bowen and Charles Ritchie, the Canadian diplomat with whom she was in love for more than thirty years.
