Female : Novelist & short story writer. Spent much of her early life living with relatives in England because of her father's ill-health. Married Alan Cameron 1923

Nationality : Irish Place of Birth : Dublin

Date of Birth : 1899 Date of Death : 1973 Age : 74

Education : Downe House Sch, Kent

1923-1930
Encounters: Stories (1923 Sidgwick & Jackson) (1926 Boni & Liveright) - 1st book
Ann Lee's & Other Stories (1926 S & J) (1926 B & L)
The Hotel (1927 Constable) (1928 Dial Press)
The Last September (1929 Constable) (1929 Dial Press)
[Filmed in 1999]
Joining Charles & Other Stories (1929 Constable) (1929 DP)

1931-1940
Friends and Relations (1931 Constable) (1931 DP)
To the North (1932 Gollancz) (1933 Knopf)
The Cat Jumps & Other Stories (1934 Gollancz)
The House in Paris (1935 Gollancz) (1936 Knopf)
(Ed) The Faber Book of Modern Stories (1937 Faber) (1956 Knopf)
The Death of the Heart (1938 Gollancz) (1939 Knopf)

1941-1950
Look at All Those Roses (1941 Gollancz) (1941 Knopf)
Seven Winters (1942 Cuala Press, Dublin) - Ltd Ed 450
Bowen's Court (1942 Longmans) (1942 Knopf)
[A history of her family home in Cork, which was later demolished]
English Novelists (1942 Collins "Britain in Pictures" series) (1942 Hastings House)
Seven Winters (1943 Longmans) (1943 Knopf)
The Demon Lover & Other Stories (1945 Cape)
Ivy Gripped the Steps & Other Stories (1946 Knopf) - same as "The Demon Lover"
Selected Stories (1946 Fridberg, Dublin)
Anthony Trollope : A New Judgement (1946 OUP, UK & US)
Why Do I Write ? : An Exchange of Views between Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene
& V S Pritchett (1948 Marshall)
The Heat of the Day (1949 Cape) (1949 Knopf)
[Cape sold 45.000 copies within months of publication]
Collected Impressions (1950 Longman 18/-) (1950 Knopf NY)

1951-1960
Early Stories (1951 Knopf NY)
Look at all Those Roses (1951 Cape)
The Shelbourne (1951 Harrap)
The Shelbourne Hotel (1951 Knopf) - same as above
A World of Love (1955 Cape 10/6) (1955 Knopf)
Stories (1959 Knopf)
A Time in Rome (1959 Knopf) (1960 Longmans, Green 21/-) (1960 Knopf)

AFTER 1961
After-Thought : Pieces about Writing (1962 Longman) (1962 Knopf)
Bowen's Court (c1963 Ecco Press, NY)
The Little Girls (1964 Cape) (1964 Knopf)
A Day in the Dark & Other Stories (1965 Cape)
The Good Tiger (1965 Knopf) (1970 Cape) - juvenile
Eva Trout, or Changing Scenes (1968 Knopf) (1969 Cape)
Pictures and Conversations (1975 Allen Lane) (1975 Knopf) - autobiography
The Collected Stories (1981 Cape) (1982 Random House)

READING
Jocelyn Brooke : Elizabeth Bowen (1952 British Council & Longmans pb)
William Heath : Elizabeth Bowen - An Introduction to Her Novels (1961 Wisconsin UP)
Allan E Austin : Elizabeth Bowen (1971 Twayne, NY)
Harriet Blodgett : patterns of Reality - Elizabeth Bowen's Novels (1975)
Victoria Glendinning : Elizabeth Bowen - Portrait of a Writer (1977 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Hermione Lee : Elizabeth Bowen - An Estimation (1981)
J M Sellery & W O Harris : Elizabeth Bowen - A Bibliography (c1981 Texas UP)
(Selected & Intro by) Hermione Lee : The Mulberry Tree : Writings of Elizabeth Bowen (Virago 1986 £12.95)
(Ed) Harold Bloom : Elizabeth Bowen - Modern critical Views (1987)
Phyllis Lassner : Elizabeth Bowen (1990 Macmillan)
Maud Ellman : Elizabeth Bowen (2004 Edinburgh £15.95)