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People, Places, Things – Essays by Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen, Allan Hepburn, Allan Hepburn
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This volume collects for the first time essays published in British, Irish, and American periodicals during Bowen's lifetime as well as essays which have never been published before. The essays include Bowen's observations on age, toys, disappointment, writers, and manners.
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- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- LIGHT
- Modern Lighting
- The 1938 Academy: An Unprofessional View
- Christmas at Bowen's Court
- The Light in the Dark
- Ecstasy of the Eye
- New Waves of the Future
- PLACES
- Britain in Autumn
- By the Unapproachable Sea
- Foreword to The Cinque Ports
- The Idea of France
- Paris Peace Conference: 1946. An Impression
- Paris Peace Conference – Some Impressions 1
- Paris Peace Conference – Some Impressions 2
- Paris Peace Conference – Some Impreesions 3
- Prague and the Crisis
- Hungary
- Without Coffee, Cigarettes, or Feeling
- Regent's Park and St. John's Wood
- New York Waiting in My Memory
- PEOPLE
- Miss Willis
- Paul Morand
- Mainie Jellett
- Foreword to Olive Willis and Downe House
- HOUSES
- The Christmas Toast is “Home!”
- Opening up the House
- Home for Christmas
- Bowen's Court
- IRELAND
- Letter from Ireland
- Ireland Makes Irish
- How They Live in Ireland: Conquest by Cheque-Book
- Ireland
- Introduction to The House by the Church-yard
- THINGS
- Toys
- Calico Windows
- Introduction to The ABC of Millinery
- The Teakettle
- On Giving a Present
- The Art of Giving
- Mirrors Are Magic
- WRITERS AND THEIR BOOKS
- Jane Austen
- Introduction to Pride and Prejudice
- What Jane Austen Means to Me
- Persuasion
- Introduction to No One to Blame
- James Joyce
- New Writers
- Guy de Maupassant
- Foreword to Tomato Cain and Other Stories
- Foreword to Haven: Short Stories, Poems and Aphorisms
- Introduction to The Stories of William Sansom
- A Matter of Inspiration
- Introduction to An Angela Thirkell Omnibus
- A Passage to E. M. Forster
- Introduction to Staying with Relations
- FAIRY TALES
- Comeback of Goldilocks et al.
- Introduction to The King of the Golden River
- Enchanted Centenary of the Brothers Grimm
- ON WRITING
- What We Need in Writing
- The Short Story in England
- Introduction to Chance
- Introduction to The Observer Prize Stories
- English Fiction at Mid-Century
- Rx for a Story Worth the Telling
- Preface to Critics Who Have Influenced Taste
- AGE
- Modern Girlhood
- Teenagers
- Mental Annuity
- The Case for Summer Romance
- The Beauty of Being Your Age
- Was It an Art?
- WOMEN
- An Enormous Channel of Expectation
- Enemies of Charm in Women, in Men
- Woman's Place in the Affairs of Man
- Outrageous Ladies
- VARIOUS ARTS AND DISAPPOINTMENTS
- A Way of Life
- The Forgotten Art of Living
- The Art of Respecting Boundaries
- The Virtue of Optimism
- Disappointment 1
- Disappointment 2
- How to Be Yourself – But Not Eccentric
- The Thread of Dreams
- Notes
- Works Cited