The Review of Contemporary Fiction, June 22nd, 2001
In 1981 the critic Hermione Lee felt she had to open her excellent book-length critical study of Elizabeth Bowen by saying: "I have written a critical study of Elizabeth Bowen because there is a great deal to be said about her work, and because she has been peculiarly neglected" (11). Since then, Bowen's stock has probably risen: there have been many critical articles and several more critical books, and there have been new editions of all her novels and her autobiographical writings. Bowen now has a well-established reputation as an important twentieth-century English (and Anglo-Irish) writ...
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