ENG352 - Contemporary British Literature

Elizabeth Bowen Bio

• b. 1899 - Dublin, Ireland
• d. 1973
• 1935 - moved to London
• Worked in the Ministry of Information
• Wrote about the emptiness awaiting the upper class, loss of innocence, and the power of withheld emotions
• Wrote social dramas containing morbid humor
• Paid close attention to landscape
• Suggest supra-rational and supernatural experience