Elizabeth Lowry

Author and literary journalist @TheTLS @guardian @WSJ @LRB etc. THE CHOSEN shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize 2023. Agent @AMHeathLtd

[Elizabeth Lowry @MElizabethLowry]

Beyond thrilled to see #TheChosen shortlisted for the #HWACrowns23 📚Congratulations to all the other shortlisted writers - terrific to be in such brilliant company! And huge & grateful thanks to the judges: you’ve made my day @LizzieMastersUK @riverrun @amheath @waltscottprize

[Historia – the HWA @HistoriaHWA]

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A beautifully-written study of Thomas Hardy's first marriage. Powerful and compelling, demonstrates not just a love of Hardy's work but also real insight into the tales we tell ourselves to mask our frailties and delusions
#HWACrowns23 #Gold #histfic

[Elizabeth Lowry @MElizabethLowry]

@annbauerwriter May his memory be a blessing

[Elizabeth Lowry @MElizabethLowry]

@annbauerwriter @cynthiafor46969 But the pull to talk about it and not talk about it - and the not knowing how - is already there in Abide With Me, completely agree. What a terrific writer she is.

[Elizabeth Lowry @MElizabethLowry]

@annbauerwriter @cynthiafor46969 She found a way of writing about the shame and silence of pain soon after that, I think.

[Elizabeth Lowry @MElizabethLowry]

@noisycontrarian @annbauerwriter You think? 😁

[Elizabeth Lowry @MElizabethLowry]

@annbauerwriter @GuardianBooks @nytimesbooks @washingtonpost That really means a lot - thank you for reading the piece so generously. I write for @WSJBooks as well, and that’s always what I try to do: respond to the book itself. I think that matters enormously for all of us who write and review. Really appreciate this exchange.

[Ann Bauer @annbauerwriter]

This review of Elizabeth Strout's new novel by @MElizabethLowry is terrific. More of this! A conservative publication conceding the author throws in gratuitous political jabs but calling the book 'superb' on its merit. Would left-leaning media do the same?
https://t.co/cFneumRjS2

[Anamika Pandey @ianamikagautam]

Nothing is more humbling than spending 4 hours researching the specific architectural layout of a 14th century tavern just to write the sentence: "They went inside."

[Elizabeth Lowry @MElizabethLowry]

Absolutely thrilled to be starting as a RLF Fellow this week at Oxford’s Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages 😊 Thank you @royallitfund @UniofOxford @OxfordModLangs ✍️ #teaching

[Sheila Liming @seeshespeak]

I, for one, enjoy knowing that Edna St Vincent Millay ate off of witch-patterned Wedgwood earthenware, pictured here next to her hunting rifle

[Elizabeth Lowry @MElizabethLowry]

Congratulations! 👏 Such an incredibly well-deserved win! #amreading #HistoricalFiction

[Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction @waltscottprize]

Andrew Miller has won the 2025 #WalterScottPrize for Historical Fiction with THE LAND IN WINTER ( @SceptreBooks ) his novel set in a remote English community during the long, hard winter of 1962/63. Learn more:

https://t.co/gqD2aeh6jL

#TheLandinWinter #AndrewMiller

[Elizabeth Lowry @MElizabethLowry]

I wrote about Jo Harkin’s exuberant and moving new novel set during the Wars of the Roses for ⁦@WSJ⁩ #amreading #historicalfiction https://t.co/QfUuHG00zf

[Simon Knott @SimoninSuffolk]

Thomas Hardy was born #OTD 2 June 1840. If I was sent to a desert island and could only take half a dozen books with me, one of them would be 'Under The Greenwood Tree', 1872. It's a lovely book, a tale to reread in winter, a vivid story of rural characters and their relationships, full of humour, but with one of those moral dilemmas for which he would become famous.

Most Hardy novels don't have happy endings, but this one does ('Far From the Madding Crowd' is another). Today, Hardy is perhaps more admired for his poetry than his novels. When I was younger I would have enthused about his more depressing novels, especially 'The Mayor of Casterbridge' and 'Jude the Obscure'. Now I'm older, I know I'll never read those books again. Wisely, Hardy gave up writing novels when he reached his fifties, and stuck to poetry.

[@poemparent @poemparent]

A repost for Thomas Hardy's birthday.

#thomashardy #thomashardypoetry #beenycliff @hardysociety #poetry #poemoftheday #poemaday #poetrycommunity
#poem #dailypost #dailypoem #dailypoems #writing #worldofpoetry #poemadaychallenge #inspiration #poetryinstagram #instapoet

[Thomas Hardy Society @hardysociety]

Thomas Hardy, born #OTD 2 June 1840

Wishing one of Britain’s greatest writers a very happy 185th birthday.

[Elizabeth Lowry @MElizabethLowry]

@HotelChocolat I'd build a miniature fortress around this chocolate-filled masterpiece, complete with a moat of melted caramel and gummy bear guards armed with whisks. No one gets near my chocolate! 😁

[Elizabeth Lowry @MElizabethLowry]

This 😁👇#amwriting

[Elizabeth Lowry @MElizabethLowry]

I wrote about this marvellous production of #ThreeSisters @The_Globe for @TheTLS. You can still catch it till 19 April #theatre #Chekhov #SamWanamakerPlayhouse

[Elizabeth Lowry @MElizabethLowry]

@DebsGreenJones2 Yes! Loved the Waverley novels, esp The Black Dwarf, as a teen. Fascinating similarities between it and Wuthering Heights, thank you!