Bowen, Elizabeth — Bowen's Court
Longmans 1964 2nd edition. Cloth, dj, VG/G. viii+462pp, 16pp b/w plates, price clipped dustjacket a little rubbed along the edges & with some chips, cloth a little rubbed. A history of Bowen's Court near Kildorrery in County Cork, Ireland. Bowen inherited the family seat in 1930 & moved there in 1952. By 1959 it had been demolished. Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen [ 1899 - 1973 ] Anglo-Irish novelist, notable for her books about 'the Big House' of Irish landed Protestants.