Elizabeth Bowen: Key works and links

We look forward to studying Bowen’s great novel The House in Paris (1935) on Saturday 18 September 2021 at 10.00 am in our Women Writers Season, with a live repeat session on 2 April 2022.

Elizabeth Bowen 1899-1973

Major novels

The Hotel (1927)
The Last September (1929)
Friends and Relations (1931)
To the North (1932)
The House in Paris (1935)
The Death of the Heart (1938)
The Heat of the Day (1949)
A World of Love (1955)
Eva Trout (1968)

Also: Collected Stories and individual collections of stories. Tessa Hadley recently edited a new Selected Stories by Bowen (2021).

• Further information: Oxford Bibliographies (Oxford University Press online)

• Podcast: Joanne O'Leary @hyenapetticoat of the London Review of Books talks with David Trotter about Elizabeth Bowen's life and work. Freely available online.

• Articles in the LRB on Bowen. Many university and local libraries subscribe to the LRB and provide online access to the magazine for library members.

Tessa Hadley on re-reading Bowen, LRB, February 2020.

David Trotter on Bowenology, LRB, August 2021.

• The Elizabeth Bowen Society website has some useful information and links.

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