Elizabeth Bowen

Quotes

• “"What's the matter with this country is the matter with the lot of us individually— our sense of personality is a sense of outrage and we'll never get outside of it."But the hold of the country was that, she considered, it could be thought of in terms of oneself, so interpreted.”
• “Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.”
• “This is the worst of love, this unmeant mystification — someone smiling and going out without saying where, or a letter arriving, being read in your presence, put away, not explained, or: "No, alas, I can't to-night" on the telephone — that, one person having set up without knowing, the other cannot undo without the where? who? why? that brings them both down a peg. Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.”
• “And yet in a way I would rather fail point blank. Things one can do have no value. I don't mind feeling small myself, but I dread finding the world is.”
• “Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself — in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.”
• “Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem.”

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Key facts

Born

Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen , ( 1899-06-07 ) 7 June 1899, Dublin , Ireland

Died

22 February 1973 (1973-02-22) (aged 73), London , England

Resting place

Saint Colman's Church, Farahy

Language

English

Notable works

The Last September (1929), The House in Paris (1936), The Death of the Heart (1938), The Heat of the Day (1949), Eva Trout (1968)

Spouse

Alan Cameron ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1923 ; died 1952 ) ​

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Key dates

Born

7 June 1899

Died

22 February 1973

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Elizabeth

Family name

Bowen

Gender

female

Citizenship

Republic of Ireland

Place of birth

Dublin

Place of death

London

Occupation

short story writer

Languages spoken

English language

Award

James Tait Black Memorial Prize

Image

Elizabeth Bowen (cropped).png

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