Bowen's Court

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Bowen was born in Dublin in 1899, the only child of an Irish lawyer and landowner. She travelled a great deal, dividing most of her time between London and Bowen's Court, the family house in County Cork which she inherited. Her first book, a collection of short stories, Encounters , was published in 1923. The Hotel (1927) was her first novel. She was awarded the CBE in 1948, and received honorary degrees from Trinity College, Dublin in 1949, and from Oxford University in 1956. The Royal Society of Literature made her a Companion of Literature in 1965. She died in 1973. Klappentext A new edition of the double collection of memoirs from the acclaimed author, which was first published in 1942. In Seven Winters Elizabeth Bowen recalls with endearing candour her family and her Dublin childhood as seen through the eyes of a child who could not read till she was seven and who fed her imagination only on sights and sounds. Bowen's Court describes the history of one Anglo-Irish family in County Cork from the Cromwellian settlement until 1959, when the author, the last of the Bowens, was forced to sell the house she loved. With the mastery that is the hallmark of her novels Elizabeth reviews ten generations of Bowens as representative of a class - the Protestant Irish gentry. Their lives were ones of fanatical commitment to property, lawsuits, formidable matriachs, violent conflicts, hunting, drinking and breeding, self-destructive and self-sustaining fantasies... Zusammenfassung Bowen's Court describes the history of one Anglo-Irish family in County Cork from the Cromwellian settlement until 1959, when Elizabeth Bowen was forced to sell the family house she loved.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Bowen
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.1999
• EAN: 9780099287797
• ISBN: 978-0-09-928779-7
• No. of pages: 560
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Dublin, NATURE / General, History, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, Ireland, Autobiography: literary, The countryside, country life: general interest, Family & relationships, Family history, tracing ancestors, The countryside, country life, Autobiography: historical, political and military, County Cork, dublin; the hotel; encounters