![]() ![]() For the next six years, she and her mother led a semi-vagrant lifestyle in rented villas around Kent, until her mother died in 1912 and she went to live with aunts. However, Bowen’s name is not one traditionally associated with Modernist writers, though she kept company with the likes of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury group, arriving late on the Modernist scene and employing narrative techniques reminiscent of the Realists.īorn in Ireland in 1899, Elizabeth Bowen and her mother were forced into exile by her father’s mental breakdown when she was just seven. And by the end of the novel, we see that the Good Lord has not delivered the characters from any of these spiritual maladies, a Modernist irony if there ever was one. This is the Anglican church Litany which Elizabeth Bowen recited from childhood, and the inspiration for the three section titles of the Death of the Heart. ![]()
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