A Modern Literary Life: Elizabeth Bowen, A Memoir - Hardcover

by Heather Ingman (Author)

This revelatory new work sets the life of one of the foremost writers of fiction in the 20th-century in its several contexts including her busy life in literary London, and her experiences during the Blitz (when she was an ARP Warden). / The author is a leading scholar noted for her work on Irish fiction, nation, women, and gender.

Author Biography

Heather Ingman is Visiting Research Fellow in the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, Trinity College, the University of Dublin and was, until her retirement, Adjunct Professor in the School of English, TCD where she taught courses on Irish writing and modernist women's fiction. Her most recent publications include Strangers to Themselves: Ageing in Irish Writing (Palgrave 2018), Irish Women's Fiction from Edgeworth to Enright (Irish Academic Press, 2013), A History of the Irish Short Story (Cambridge University Press, 2009), and Twentieth-Century Fiction by Irish Women: Nation and Gender (Ashgate, 2007), Elizabeth Bowen, (Key Irish Women Writers series, EER, 2021). She is co-editor, with Clíona Ó Gallchoir, of A History of Modern Irish Women's Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2018).