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.
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💗 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.
and with you!
Thank you!!
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Thank you!! (And she was wonderfully kind and encouraging! Couldn’t have asked for a better Bowen team!)
I’m thrilled to share that I passed my viva with minor corrections! So grateful for my examiners, Maud Ellmann and Vike Plock, for an insightful and engaging discussion about my work, and for my supervisors, @laurasalisbury.bsky.social and @becimay.bsky.social for their support over the years!
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.
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.
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Today's the day! We're looking forward to seeing you all at New Work in Modernist Studies 15. If you're presenting or attending today, we would love to hear from you! Share with us using #NWiMS15 🌟
Book at the link below!
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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.
Join us tomorrow for “The Demon Lover and Other Stories”! Bowen at her best.
Link below for our November Reading Group.
*The Demon Lover* is our discussion choice.
7pm GMT, 26th November 2025.
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Great boost of academic energy during this very exhausting time!
Many thanks to @charlotte-millar.bsky.social
and @drandrewsneddon.bsky.social for organizing this mini, online follow-up conference to the "Ghosts in Britain and Ireland" in-person event in June. Wonderful discussion!
Such a fun conference to present at! Pity I can’t be there in person. @asleuki.bsky.social
Very excited for this!
Re-writing the opening of the first chapter I produced during the PhD (in the year of our Lord 2019) and I keep hitting "enter" so I don't have to look the old material in the eye.
#PhDLife
Me, too, EB. Me, too.
Check out the programme for Unquiet Shores here haunted-shores.com/unquiet-shor... You can join us online or in person. Register by 2 June 🌊👻
We lost my beautiful, wonderful grandmother on Monday morning. She was a woman like no other. Here she is pictured holding my darling mother.
Today is the centenary of the publication of The Great Gatsby! Here's the piece I wrote about the novel: theconversation.com/after-100-ye...
Thank you! I will still have to hunt for the one with the journal pagination, but this is already a huge help, thank you so much!!
Would anyone happen to have access to this article (Exeter doesn't), and would you be willing to share it with me?
Stebbing and Eddington in the Shadow of Bergson scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/hpq/arti...
IT'S ALIVE! The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature, which I co-edited with @drreznicek.bsky.social and Bridget English, has a webpage and a publication date! Really enjoyed putting this together. @livunipress.bsky.social www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
A new book featuring Elizabeth Bowen from the @oxfordunipress.bsky.social
Literature and Sound Film in Mid-Century Britain by Lara Ehrenfried studies the paths of film and text following the introduction of synchronized sound in the late 1920s.
Incl. Home Front writing by Bowen.
SAVE THE DATE!
Our next online Bowen Reading Group is on:
Wed., May 28th 2025, at 7 pm GMT
We are reading JOINING CHARLES. All welcome, link to follow.
An excellent conversation tonight with the @bowensociety.bsky.social reading group discussing Bowen’s second short story collection, “Ann Lee’s”. It was lovely co-hosting with you @nualaoconnor.bsky.social — for news about upcoming events, keep an eye on our social media channels!
This beautiful painting 'People Are Most Themselves When Suddenly Woken' by Annabel Carington is inspired by the work of Elizabeth Bowen.
#ElizabethBowenSociety #elizabethbowen #atimeinrome #annabelcarington #artandwriting
Bowen’s eyes peer incongruously out from Ancestors, a new work by Debbie Godsell that features in her superb exhibition Flail. It opened today at Uillinn in Skibbereen with a conversation between Godsell and @cristinleach.bsky.social, followed by the rousing performance of a specially composed hymn.