We have a competition for you - two copies of Aimée Gasston's new book, Modernist Short Fiction and Things, to give away, featuring chapters on Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf and #ElizabethBowen. To enter, follow @bowensociety and retweet.
Happy birthday to Victoria Glendinning who is 84 today. Glendinning was #ElizabethBowen's first biographer (Portrait of a Writer, 1977, @wnbooks) and later co-edited Love's Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen and Charles Ritchie: Letters and Diaries, 1941-1973 @simonandschusteruk 1/3
On March 14 #PiDay (#π = 3.14) I must confess #Pi and I are buddies:
1. I go around in circles🙂
2. I click once daily on the #PiNetwork app to generate Pi #crypto currency.
To try this on your mobile, you need an invite to join:
https://t.co/5nu7yq1b2Z
invitation code: joroiv
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To mark the release next week of #TheShadowyThird, we have 3 signed copies to #giveaway to lucky followers in the UK and Ireland*
To enter;
1. Follow us @BowenSociety
2. Retweet this tweet
3. Tag a friend who may be int'd in comments below.
Good luck!
We are delighted to see this week that the initiative to create what will be the first life size statue of Virginia Woolf is proceeding apace. It is planned for the river bank in Richmond London where Woolf lived for ten years from 1914 to 1924. 1/n
We’re delighted to announce a @bowensociety Reading Group event to take place on Thur 21 Jan 2021. For our first ever event of this type we are going back to the very beginning of #ElizabethBowen’s writing career to discuss her first collection of Short Stories, #Encounters 1/3
Beautiful, personal article below by poet Tom McCarthy @DeisePoet on the lifelong friendship between Molly Keane and Elizabeth Bowen. Contains many insights on both women, their lives & writing @DickHowe@corkcitylibrary@waterfordmuseum@keane_house 1/n
https://t.co/lQMPxDeRte
As China unfurls its flag 🇨🇳 on the Moon, Britain can unfurl a fish 🐠 on the EU negotiating table. If only a #RedHerring could be found at Whitehall!
#BrexitTalks#BrexitSpeaks#Brexit
On 20 September the annual Elizabeth Bowen Commemoration Service took place at St Colman’s Church, Farahy, Co Cork, Ireland. This year Dr Michael Waldron @michaeljwaldron made the address. 1/5
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All the ticking clocks did little to time here. Here they hung on their hill over the inland sea, and seemed as safe as young swallows under an eave. But fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
From The House In Paris by Elizabeth Bowen.
#TheHouseInParis#ElizabethBowen
'They crossed the river while Miss Fisher was speaking. In a sort of slow flash, Henrietta had her first open view of Paris - watery sky, wet light, light water, frigid, dark, inky buildings, spans of bridges, trees.'
From “The house in Paris” by Elizabeth Bowen
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She is just so good. She was one of the writers who made me want to be a writer. I particularly love how she keeps the camera incredibly close for page after page. And then she knows the exact moment to suddenly pull the camera right back. The effect can be astonishing.
"The flutter and click of machinery streamed out across the theatre, like the terrified wings of a bird imprisoned between two window-panes - it gave him the same stretched sensation of horror and helplessness.”
From the short story, Dead Mabelle by Elizabeth Bowen
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