Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen, CBE (7 June 1899 – 22 February 1973) was an Irish novelist and short story writer.

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    “Through the particular, in wartime, I felt the high-voltage current of the general pass.”
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

    “Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One’s relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.”
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)