Why haven't Fran Booth and Donna Denise from Upload kissed yet? #Upload #FranBooth #ElizabethBowen #DonnaDenise #StefaniaIndelicato

So hashtag time! Here are a few of my favourite horror/dark fantasy/weird writers. Let's start with the old guard, i.e. pre-WW2. Most of these are dab hands at pagan or antiquarian horror, which are my favourite types usually:

#Sarban (My A-number-one, all-time favourite weird fiction writer)
#OliverOnions
#AlgernonBlackwood
#ArthurMachen
#WalterDeLaMare
#WilliamSansom
#MRJames
#JohnBuchan
#EdithWharton
#EFBenson
#LPHartley
#HRussellWakefield
#EdithNesbit
#JSLeFanu
#ElizabethBowen

too near the eye

Elizabeth Bowen, from ‘Summer Night’ #literature #irish #ElizabethBowen

#SylviaTownsendWarner #DaphneduMaurier #ElizabethBowen #PenelopeMortimer #ElizabethTaylor #ElizabethJaneHoward
#StellaGibbons
#FrancesBellerby
#AttiaHosain
#InezHolden all feature in #ADifferentSound.

STW is one of my favourites writers so I dived into her comic, apocalyptic story ‘Scorched Earth Policy’, about an old couple who toed the “make do and mend” line during the war, only to opt to raze it all down.

Edited by #LucyScholes and published in January by #PushkinPress

this was less puerile, less constrained merely by quaint old mores and fads, less like an archaic nude dauguerrotype in outmoded lingerie and with old fashioned personal grooming... there are matriarchs and patriarchs, good bad and indifferent; impossible, appalling, appealing children or teens; the usual middle generation frozen in quiet desperation. Ghosts, skeleton leaves. Friends and relations.

2/2

#books #AmReading #literature #ElizabethBowen

'The catastrophe was very quiet.'

On page 129 of my Vintage Classics edition of FRIENDS AND RELATIONS by Elizabeth Bowen, the sign and seal of much of what Bowen deals in.

#AmReading #Bookstodon #Books #Literature #ElizabethBowen

The central section, A Fine Week, wants to be it, but it feels too late, everyone is known to us, few are jotted in more than perfunctorily and any growth is out of shadow and mist. Preposterous young Theodora could tower over them all - if we saw more of her.

Also, the sense of era seems nebulous. Neither war seems to shadow these three generations, from either direction, even though if we are now in the 30s there should be something.

But I persevere. Needs must.

2/2

#booke #ElizabethBowen

'Before death she had ghosts all over the house; she was preceded and followed.'

Suddenly, with this line on page 56 of my Vintage Classics edition, I have the emotional temperature of FRIENDS AND RELATIONS by Elizabeth Bowen. Earlier, I cared to read because I care to read Bowen. Now, I care. With no qualifications.

#AmReading #bookstodon #ElizabethBowen #books #literature

50 pages into FRIENDS AND RELATIONS by Elizabeth Bowen, I'm actively disinterested in most of the characters - bit of a rarity in a Bowen - have no idea what's supposed to be going on, there's been a sudden leap ten ahead, but as ever Bowen's is so good, eccentric, and filled with askew portents that I'm kind of hooked anyway.

#AmReading #Books #Bookstodon #ElizabethBowen

Now resuming my Elizabeth Bowen traverse with the novel FRIENDS AND RELATIONS

#books #AmReading #ElizabethBowen

Reading Elizabeth Bowen. It is residing on the large “unread books” shelves, which are gradually becoming overflow shelves. #myhouseisalibrary #bookstodon #currentlyreading #elizabethbowen #bede
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I’m about halfway through Bede. Who lives on the Classics shelves.

#7books
Not many #irishbooks mentioned and we have some wonderful writers past and present so am gonna concentrate on that particular cohort though I love many more from all over this gorgeous planet
#ColmToibin mothers and sons
#williamtrevor fools of fortune
#JamesJoyce Dubliners (my home town)
#elizabethbowen The Last September
#EdnaOBrien The Little Red Chairs
#DervlaMurphy Full Tilt From Ireland to India with a Bicycle #heroine
#timrobinson Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage (honorary paddy😊)

Continuing my #Bowen intensive with THE HOUSE IN PARIS, in which two the main characters are children. Solitary, verbally precocious children are encoutered in THE HOTEL and THE LAST SEPTEMBER, and there are the flashbacked-to titular THE LITTLE GIRLS. When Bowen zeroes in on a child, it's without condescension, sometimes with a sense of the mist of uncanniness that clings closer to childhood than most adulthoods. So, this should be interesting.

#ElizabethBowen #books #novels #WomenWriters

#introduction Hi there. I’m a #phd student in English at U Miss, graduating in May and on the #academicjobmarket for the first time. I’m interested in mid-century #modernism #feminist responses to the rise of fascism, transatlantic/transnational war literature, and #genderstudies. My dissertation focuses on four #womenwriters from the 1940s: #MarthaGellhorn #ElizabethBowen #PearlBuck and #RebeccaWest. Also interested in: #knitting #crocheting #openwaterswim #SciFi #fantasy #specfic