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- Birth nameElizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen
- Elizabeth Bowen was born on June 7, 1899 in Dublin, Ireland. She was a writer, known for Shades of Darkness (1983), Camera Three (1955) and Theatre 70 (1960). She was married to Alan Charles Cameron. She died on February 22, 1973 in London, England, UK.
- SpouseAlan Charles Cameron(1923 - 1952) (his death)
- She considered writers Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster among her closest friends.
- She was awarded the C.B.E. (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 1948 for her services to literature.
- Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem.
- [on experience] She had understood some time ago that nothing became real for her until she had had time to live it over again.
- [on truth] Never to lie is to have no lock on your door.
- [on spirit] No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
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