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PATRIOTIC LADY-Marjorie Bowen-Appleton-Century...
...Manhattan last week, when this news reached the Committee on Militarism in Education, the Committee's Secretary publicly complained to the Secretary of War, who turned the matter over to Chief of Staff Malin Craig, who ordered a thorough investigation. Explained the unit's Major Arthur Bowen: "A prank...
...loom larger and more beautiful than they do under the historian's microscope. To every true-blue Briton, Horatio Nelson was one of England's greatest heroes, and his beauteous Lady Hamilton the fitting Venus to his Mars. But not to the microscopic eye of Biographer Marjorie Bowen* whose tale is enough to turn a true-blue Briton purple or green, set Nelson himself whirling on his Trafalgar column...
Elizabeth Bowen's progress as a novelist has been no less remarkable than the lack of attention her progress has aroused. Though it was obvious from her first book that she was an exceptionally gifted writer she has had the unfortunate faculty of frightening plain readers away. Her first novel, The Hotel, was bitterly amusing; To the North (TIME, March 13, 1933) was chillingly clever. But readers who had not yet discovered her or had not been scared off by her icy intelligence found in The House in Paris nothing to alarm or repel them, felt it descend...
...Author, like many a first-rate English writer, is Irish. Born in Dublin (1899), she was taken to England when she was 7, but has always spent her summers in Ireland, and still keeps up Bowen's Court, her family's 18th Century country house. Because of her mother's early death and her father's remarriage, Elizabeth Bowen left home at 19, lived with relations or hand-to-mouth in European hotels and boardinghouses. When she was 23 she married one Alan Cameron, went to live outside Oxford, and settled down to write...