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Elizabeth Bowen Greeting Card - At it Again! This elegant Elizabeth Bowen Greeting Card by At it Again! features an iconic image of the Irish author of The Last September.Β  A great literary cardΒ for book lovers and a keepsake of Irish culture fo...

Do you know that the fab #atitagain produce this gorgeous Elizabeth Bowen greeting card? It's suitable for all occasions, including a certain upcoming season πŸŽ„

www.atitagain.ie/product/eliz...

05.11.2025 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Link below for our November Reading Group.
*The Demon Lover* is our discussion choice.
7pm GMT, 26th November 2025.

www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...

04.11.2025 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bowen's WW2 story 'The Demon Lover' suits the season. If you like audio, there are several versions available as podcasts.

Storyscape has a nicely gothic, slightly OTT version, performed by Alex Rogers. See Wild 7 Podcast NetworkΒ wherever you listen to pods. Episode 5, October 2021.

29.10.2025 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Spooky read? Try Bowen's *The Demon Lover*. And it's our next Reading Group pick too! Link soon πŸ‘»

#ElizabethBowen #bowenreadinggroup #ElizabethBowenSociety #thedemonlover

25.10.2025 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Friendly reminder: our pick for our next Bowen Reading Group on 26th November, 7pm GMT, online. We're reading the collection *The Demon Lover*. Link soon to book!

19.10.2025 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Save the date!

Our next reading group will be on 26th November, 7pm GMT, online.

Get reading *The Demon Lover* πŸ‚

In the Collected volume, the stories run from 'In the Square' to 'Mysterious Kor'.

25.09.2025 09:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Board nember @nualaoconnor.bsky.social has written a report on Evensong 2025, in memory of Elizabeth Bowen, at St Colman's Church, Farahy.
It's now on the Bowen Society website.
www.bowensociety.com/commemoration/

24.09.2025 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bowen Essay Comp for under and postgrads. See more:
Latest News – The Elizabeth Bowen Society share.google/oixUWFDLWnFI...

22.09.2025 10:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Next Wednesday we have the September Bowen Reading Group.

24th Sep - 7pm BST - online. Free! All welcome.

We're reading & discussing *Look at All Those Roses*. 🌹

In the Collected volume, the stories we're considering run from 'Reduced' to 'Summer Night'.
www.tickettailor.com/checkout/vie...

19.09.2025 14:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Flowers for Elizabeth from the Bowen Society ahead of her annual memorial at St Colman's, Farahy, which commences shortly.

14.09.2025 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Reminder: Farahy - 14th Sep. 2025 - Commemoration of Elizabeth Bowen

Evensong 2025

The Annual Choral Evensong in Commemoration of Elizabeth Bowen will take place this year on Sunday, 14 September, at St Colman's Church, Farahy, at 3:30pm.

13.09.2025 09:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Join us for the September Bowen Reading Group - link in bio!

24th Sep - 7pm BST - online. Free! All welcome.

We're reading & discussing *Look at All Those Roses*. 🌹

In the Collected volume, the stories we're considering run from 'Reduced' to 'Summer Night'. www.tickettailor.com/checkout/vie...

10.09.2025 09:48 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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FORTHCOMING:
*The Aesthetic of Elizabeth Bowen’s Novels - Light, Atmosphere, Fragmentation, and Sensation* (2026) by Diana Hirst

This is the first monograph to evaluate Elizabeth Bowen’s β€˜verbal painting’, and the first to acknowledge the influence of the East Kent landscape in her novels.

08.09.2025 10:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Elizabeth Bowen features in a 1970 BBC documentary currently available to watch on the BBC iPlayer.

Omnibus - Virginia Woolf: A Night's Darkness, A Day's Sail

'I know she was a genius.' EB on VW

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

04.09.2025 10:39 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Very much wish I could go to this. If you’re in Cork, it looks like a lovely event to remember Eibhear Walshe.

03.09.2025 09:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Green Carnations: Remembering Eibhear Walshe The School of English and Digital Humanities, UCC, invites you to a symposium in honour of the late Dr Eibhear Walshe.

Wednesday, 10th Sep

Green Carnations: Remembering Eibhear Walshe

FREE - Book: Eventbrite

The School of English and Digital Humanities, UCC, invites you to a symposium in honour of the late Dr Eibhear Walshe.

12:30 - 7:30pm
www.eventbrite.ie/e/green-carn...

03.09.2025 09:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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All welcome to join the September Bowen Reading Group.

24th Sep - 7pm BST - online. Free!

We're reading & discussing *Look at All Those Roses*. 🌹

In the Collected volume, the stories we're considering run from 'Reduced' to 'Summer Night'. Link in comments.

www.tickettailor.com/checkout/vie...

28.08.2025 14:17 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Great to meet you, Dominic πŸ™Œ

12.08.2025 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🌹 A little reading reminder for the next Bowen Reading Group 🌹

24th Sep - 7pm BST - online.

We're reading & discussing *Look at All Those Roses*.

Link soon.

#bowenreadinggroup #ElizabethBowen #ElizabethBowenSociety #lookatallthoseroses #shortfiction #shortstories

12.08.2025 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Save the date!
Bowen Reading Group.

24th Sep - 7pm BST - online.

We're reading & discussing *Look at All Those Roses*.

Link to follow soon 🌹

#bowenreadinggroup #ElizabethBowen #ElizabethBowenSociety #lookatallthoseroses #shortfiction #shortstories

30.07.2025 19:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Weds 30th July, 7pm - Bowen Reading Group.
We're reading & discussing *The Cat Jumps*. Lots of wit, poking at snobbery, & beautiful language.

Online. Free!

Γ— In the Collected, the stories we're considering run from 'The Tommy Crans' to 'The Apple Tree' x

www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...

27.07.2025 11:40 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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β€˜When I visit other big houses, I am struck by some quality that they all haveβ€”not so much isolation as mystery. Each house seems to live its own spell and that is the spell that falls on the visitor from the moment he passes in at the gates.’ Elizabeth Bowen @crawfordartgallery.bsky.social

26.07.2025 06:39 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Reminder for the July Bowen Reading Group - link in comments!

30th July - 7pm BST - online. Free. All welcome.

We're reading & discussing *The Cat Jumps*. πŸˆβ€β¬›οΈ

In the Collected volume, the stories we're considering run from 'The Tommy Crans' to 'The Apple Tree'.

www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...

09.07.2025 22:32 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Elizabeth Bowen Review, Vol. 6, June 2025, is now published online. Link: share.google/18hi5HDg5DWr...

27.06.2025 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bowen Reading Group - link for 30th July - 7pm BST - online. Free. All welcome.

We're reading & discussing *The Cat Jumps*. πŸˆβ€β¬›οΈ

In the Collected volume, the stories we're considering run from 'The Tommy Crans' to 'The Apple Tree'.

www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...

24.06.2025 09:15 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bowen Reading Group - save the date!

30th July - 7pm BST - online.

We're reading & discussing *The Cat Jumps*.

Link to follow πŸˆβ€β¬›οΈ

09.06.2025 11:43 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Select tickets – Elizabeth Bowen Society Annual Birthday Lecture - Jessica Gildersleeve Christmas at Bowen's Court: Elizabeth Bowen's Christmas Ghost Stories 'Whenever five or six English-speaking people meet round ...

Happy birthday, Elizabeth Bowen- born 7th June 1899, in Dublin.

Join us to celebrate with our Annual Bowen Birthday Lecture, featuring Jessica Gildersleeve. Online - 7th June, 7pm, BST - free!

Link in comments.

www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...

07.06.2025 08:07 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Final reminder for our free, online Bowen Birthday lecture tomorrow. Join us!
www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...

06.06.2025 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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BIRTHDAY LECTURE Join us for our Annual Bowen Birthday Lecture, with Jessica Gildersleeve. Online - 7th June, 7pm, BST - free!

Christmas at Bowen’s Court: Elizabeth Bowen’s Christmas Ghost Stories.

www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...

02.06.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Belfast Bowenites! An afternoon Bowen birthday event for you at Crescent Arts centre on 7th June.

*Reading Elizabeth Bowen* with Tessa Hadley

Saturday 07 June 2025

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Β£30 | Β£25

See @crescentarts.bsky.social for booking info.

23.05.2025 08:24 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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