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Elizabeth Bowen Research Paper

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Elizabeth Bowen was born June 7, 1899 in Dublin, Ireland, and died of lung cancer February 22, 1973. After the death of her mother when she was thirteen she moved to London. In 1918-1919 she attended London council school of art, and she started writing at the age of 20. She was the most well-known writer in her time period, and was known all over the world for her stories and novels. By 1948 she received a doctor of letters from Trinity College and was made commander of the order of the British Empire. Bowen published many different types of writing styles for the British broadcasting center. She was an air raid warden for London during World War II. After experiencing the blitz and bombing of London by the Germans this gave her the inspiration to write “The Demon Lover”. In “The Demon Lover,” Elizabeth Bowen shows the challenges families faced from lost and injured loved ones through characterization and trauma, much like people experienced in the war. World War II lasted for six years and one day, from September first 1939 till September second 1945. In these six years’ people are being killed and they are not just soldiers, innocent people are having …show more content…

This disease, killing his mother and drove his father mad, forcing her to live with her aunt. When she first started on her own, she struggled to get by making just enough money to survive a winter in Italy. Elizabeth’s stories are written in the early twentieth century in England and Ireland. When Elizabeth would write, she was not scared to tell the truth, she would tell it like it was and did not care about what other people thought or said. She was a very dedicated writer and many people believed that she should be continued to be known for her writings. It is not easy being a writer, many writers have had traumatic things happen to them, but these things make them the writers they

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