‘While I stand and regard it, the indifference to myself shown by a work of art in itself is art.‘

#ElizabethBowen died #onthisday in 1973. Never one to spare a direct hit, she can always be relied upon to jolt you awake with a razor sharp observation or the contortions of her painterly prose.

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"Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience."

✒️ #ElizabethBowen, Anglo-Irish novelist, #DOTD 22 February 1973. #Literature

Elizabeth Bowen - Hand in Glove A story of love, impatience and loss. And gloves.

📣 New Podcast! "Elizabeth Bowen - Hand in Glove" on @Spreaker #auntandnieces #bookdiscussion #bookrecommendations #classicnovels #elizabethbowen #familydynamics #fictionalfamilies #gothicelements #handinglove #intriguingtales #irishauthors #irishliterature #jasminelodge #literaryanalysis

The Death of the Heart (1938) by Elizabeth Bowen: A Reexamination of the Subtle Art of Emotional Sniper Fire Or, How to Get Through an Interwar London Summer of Uncomfortable Tea Parties and Heartbreaking Betrayals

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#BookSky #Literature #Poetry #SylviaPlath #ElizabethBowen

This! One of the images I wish Vintage Books would consider using for the cover of To the North (1932) by #ElizabethBowen.

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Finished #TheLastSeptember
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“But I really should not have come back here," she said. "There is something in Lady Naylor's eye: a despairing optimism....How far do you think this war is going to go? Will there ever be anything we can all do except not notice?"

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…Lois was moved to go on: “You could talk to him really about almost anything except politics. He isn't allowed any here because the ones he brings over from Oxford are all wrong."
"Wrong?" cried the visitor... "How do you mean 'wrong'?"
"Inconvenient."

Including bold new readings of Proust’s presence within the writings of #SamuelBeckett, #ElizabethBowen, #BrendanBehan, #JohnMcGahern, and #MaryDevenportO'Neill, The Irish Proust sheds new light on the cosmopolitan, modernist literary culture of post-independence Ireland.

During my lunchtime stroll around Regent's Park.

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Everybody agrees that Fran Booth and Dave Antony are the most perfect couple from Upload. #Upload #FranBooth #ElizabethBowen #DaveAntony #ChrisWilliams

Spooky read? Try Bowen's *The Demon Lover*. And it's our next Reading Group pick too! Link soon 👻

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#ResidentAlien has been a great 4 great series. glad it was concluded properly rather than being cancelled halfway through stories.
#AlanTudyk #SaraTomko #AliceWetterlund #ElizabethBowen #JudahPrehn and #GracelynAwadRinke outstanding cast. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ #mattsTfilmreviews

🌹 A little reading reminder for the next Bowen Reading Group 🌹

24th Sep - 7pm BST - online.

We're reading & discussing *Look at All Those Roses*.

Link soon.

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Elizabeth Bowen: Liv, Mike are equal partners by 'Resident Alien' S4 - UPI.com Elizabeth Bowen told UPI the partnership her "Resident Alien" character, Deputy Liv, has with her boss, Sheriff Mike, evolves quite a bit over four seasons.

Elizabeth Bowen told UPI the partnership her "Resident Alien" character, Deputy Liv, has with her boss, Sheriff Mike, evolves quite a bit over four seasons.
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Save the date!
Bowen Reading Group.

24th Sep - 7pm BST - online.

We're reading & discussing *Look at All Those Roses*.

Link to follow soon 🌹

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Join us, online, on Wednesday #ElizabethBowen

The Ten Novels of Elizabeth Bowen via the Brainwright The Brainwrought critiques are linked from here: EVA TROUT: THE LITTLE GIRLS: A WORLD OF LOVE: THE HEAT OF THE DAY: THE DEATH OF THE HEART: THE HOUSE IN PARIS: TO THE NORTH: FRIENDS AND RELATIONS: …

Really gobsmacked …
The Brainwright has completed its BOWENARAMA.
Links here: dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2025/07/23/t..., THE HOTEL as its starting destination!
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I like this book; its lack of relevance to anything in my life now; its separation from current times.

Elizabeth Bowen - like Patrick White - writes with controlled intensity and almost disdain for what other people, such as readers, might want. It gives me confidence to read on.

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Watch our next #ResidentAlien interview!

Resident Alien's Corey Reynolds & Elizabeth Bowen on the Shifting Dynamics of Their Characters’ Partnership This Season & More

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Elizabeth Bowen Anglo-Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen was BOTD in 1899. Born in Dublin, Ireland to an aristocratic family, she grew up in her family’s ancestral home, Bowen’s Court. When she was seven, she was raised…

Anglo-Irish aristocrat and writer Elizabeth Bowen, best known for her WWII-set novels “The Heat of the Day” and “The Death of the Heart”, was BOTD in 1899. #elizabethbowen #bornonthisday #supergays

The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen First published in 1935, The House in Paris is probably one of Elizabeth Bowen’s most accomplished novels. It’s certainly the most atmospheric of the four I’ve read to date, an elegantly constructe…

From the archive for Elizabeth Bowen, #BornOnThisDay in 1899, my thoughts on THE HOUSE IN PARIS.

An elegantly constructed novel that explores how the past shapes the present in surprising & striking ways. #ElizabethBowen #BOTD #ReadWomen #BookSky 💙📚

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The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.

- Elizabeth Bowen, The death of the heart
born on this day, 1899

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“When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.” (A World of Love)

✒️ #ElizabethBowen, Anglo-Irish author and critic, was #BOTD 7 June 1899. #Literature

Chatting with #AlanTudyk and the cast of #ResidentAlien as the series enters it's 4th season on #Syfy

#ScreenChatter #saratomko #CoreyReynolds #ElizabethBowen

#NowReading #nyrbwomen25 Another Spanish translation and a fabulous #elizabethbowen

Oh nice @bowensociety.bsky.social is on Bluesky
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“Surely people were odder…” #ReadingIrelandMonth2025 #elizabethbowen #friendsandrelations When it came to choosing a book for Reading Ireland month (March certainly is very Celtic!), I once again had a dig on the shelves to see what I had, and there were actually a number of possibles. …

A little late sharing today, but here is my post for #ReadingIrelandMonth2025 - a gem of a novel from #ElizabethBowen - more here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/03/26/s...