Written out of Revenge
Rosemary Hill: Bowen in Love, 9 April 2009
Love’s Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen & Charles Ritchie Letters and Diaries 1941-73
edited by Victoria Glendinning, by Judith Robertson.
Simon and Schuster, 489 pp., £14.99, February 2009,978 1 84737 213 0 Show More
edited by Victoria Glendinning, by Judith Robertson.
Simon and Schuster, 489 pp., £14.99, February 2009,
People, Places, Things: Essays by Elizabeth Bowen
edited by Allan Hepburn.
Edinburgh, 467 pp., £60, November 2008,978 0 7486 3568 9 Show More
edited by Allan Hepburn.
Edinburgh, 467 pp., £60, November 2008,
“... Civil war is an unpleasant business and the story that unfolds in the letters and diaries of Elizabeth Bowen and Charles Ritchie, the Canadian diplomat with whom she was in love for more than thirty years, is not a happy one. This was not so much what the publishers are pleased to call on the dust jacket ‘the love affair of a lifetime’, more like a fight to the death ... ”
