Elizabeth Bowen, To the North (1932)
Trudi Tate on Elizabeth Bowen, To the North
Bowen is a uniquely subtle writer and a brilliant analyst of human relations. Her work is funny, bleak, insightful and written in the most beautiful prose. To the North is the fourth of Bowen’s ten novels. On the surface, it seems one of her simpler works, but, like all her novels, it offers a devastating understanding of human love and destruction.
Caroline Lodge writes of To the North in Book Word:
‘Elizabeth Bowen’s skill is in the minute description of the psychological shifts of each character as they interact with the others. We are presented with a number of different relationships: several marriages, a few romances, employer–employee, child–adult, and friendships between men and women and between women. One couple will self-destruct, the other will find comfort in each other.’
With Trudi Tate, Director of Literature Cambridge and Emeritus Fellow of Clare hall, University of Cambridge
Saturday 24 May 2025
18.00-20.00 British Summer Time
19.00-21.00 Central European Time
Fees
£32.00 Full price
£27.00 Students
£27.00 CAMcard holders
Live online via Zoom.
The lectures are recorded and made available to participants to listen again for 48 hours after the live lecture. The seminars are not recorded.
Trudi Tate on Elizabeth Bowen, To the North
Bowen is a uniquely subtle writer and a brilliant analyst of human relations. Her work is funny, bleak, insightful and written in the most beautiful prose. To the North is the fourth of Bowen’s ten novels. On the surface, it seems one of her simpler works, but, like all her novels, it offers a devastating understanding of human love and destruction.
Caroline Lodge writes of To the North in Book Word:
‘Elizabeth Bowen’s skill is in the minute description of the psychological shifts of each character as they interact with the others. We are presented with a number of different relationships: several marriages, a few romances, employer–employee, child–adult, and friendships between men and women and between women. One couple will self-destruct, the other will find comfort in each other.’
With Trudi Tate, Director of Literature Cambridge and Emeritus Fellow of Clare hall, University of Cambridge
Saturday 24 May 2025
18.00-20.00 British Summer Time
19.00-21.00 Central European Time
Fees
£32.00 Full price
£27.00 Students
£27.00 CAMcard holders
Live online via Zoom.
The lectures are recorded and made available to participants to listen again for 48 hours after the live lecture. The seminars are not recorded.
Trudi Tate on Elizabeth Bowen, To the North
Bowen is a uniquely subtle writer and a brilliant analyst of human relations. Her work is funny, bleak, insightful and written in the most beautiful prose. To the North is the fourth of Bowen’s ten novels. On the surface, it seems one of her simpler works, but, like all her novels, it offers a devastating understanding of human love and destruction.
Caroline Lodge writes of To the North in Book Word:
‘Elizabeth Bowen’s skill is in the minute description of the psychological shifts of each character as they interact with the others. We are presented with a number of different relationships: several marriages, a few romances, employer–employee, child–adult, and friendships between men and women and between women. One couple will self-destruct, the other will find comfort in each other.’
With Trudi Tate, Director of Literature Cambridge and Emeritus Fellow of Clare hall, University of Cambridge
Saturday 24 May 2025
18.00-20.00 British Summer Time
19.00-21.00 Central European Time
Fees
£32.00 Full price
£27.00 Students
£27.00 CAMcard holders
Live online via Zoom.
The lectures are recorded and made available to participants to listen again for 48 hours after the live lecture. The seminars are not recorded.