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... fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. - Elizabeth Bowen Attribution: Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973), British novelist, story writer, essayist, and memoirist; born in Ireland. From The House in Paris (1936). As quoted in Elizabeth Bowen, ch. 13, by Victoria Glendinning (1979).

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Elizabeth Bowen

Titles by Elizabeth Bowen:

• A Day in the Dark
• The Death of the Heart
• The Demon Lover

Encyclopedia:

• Bowen, Elizabeth Dorothea Cole (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)

Salem on Literature:

• Elizabeth Bowen (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
• Elizabeth Bowen (Magill’s Choice: Notable British Novelists)
• Elizabeth Bowen (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)

Literary Criticism:

• Bowen, Elizabeth (Vol. 1) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Bowen, Elizabeth (Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism)
• Bowen, Elizabeth (Short Story Criticism)
• The Demon Lover, Elizabeth Bowen (Short Story Criticism)
• Bowen, Elizabeth (Vol. 11) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Bowen, Elizabeth (Vol. 6) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Bowen, Elizabeth (Vol. 15) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Bowen, Elizabeth (Vol. 3) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Bowen, Elizabeth (Vol. 22) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Bowen, Elizabeth (Vol. 118) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Elizabeth Bowen dies
• Elizabeth Bowen publishes The Death of the Heart
• Elizabeth Bowen is born