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The Elizabeth Bowen Society @bowensociety.bsky.social · 14d

Save the date!

Our next reading group will be on 26th November, 7pm GMT, online.

Get reading *The Demon Lover* 🍂

In the Collected volume, the stories run from 'In the Square' to 'Mysterious Kor'.

The Elizabeth Bowen Society @bowensociety.bsky.social · 14d

Board nember @nualaoconnor.bsky.social has written a report on Evensong 2025, in memory of Elizabeth Bowen, at St Colman's Church, Farahy.
It's now on the Bowen Society website.
www.bowensociety.com/commemoration/

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The Elizabeth Bowen Society @bowensociety.bsky.social · 16d

Bowen Essay Comp for under and postgrads. See more:
Latest News – The Elizabeth Bowen Society share.google/oixUWFDLWnFI...

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The Elizabeth Bowen Society @bowensociety.bsky.social · 19d

Next Wednesday we have the September Bowen Reading Group.

24th Sep - 7pm BST - online. Free! All welcome.

We're reading & discussing *Look at All Those Roses*. 🌹

In the Collected volume, the stories we're considering run from 'Reduced' to 'Summer Night'.
www.tickettailor.com/checkout/vie...

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The Elizabeth Bowen Society @bowensociety.bsky.social · 24d

Flowers for Elizabeth from the Bowen Society ahead of her annual memorial at St Colman's, Farahy, which commences shortly.

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The Elizabeth Bowen Society @bowensociety.bsky.social · 26d

Reminder: Farahy - 14th Sep. 2025 - Commemoration of Elizabeth Bowen

Evensong 2025

The Annual Choral Evensong in Commemoration of Elizabeth Bowen will take place this year on Sunday, 14 September, at St Colman's Church, Farahy, at 3:30pm.

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The Elizabeth Bowen Society @bowensociety.bsky.social · 29d

Join us for the September Bowen Reading Group - link in bio!

24th Sep - 7pm BST - online. Free! All welcome.

We're reading & discussing *Look at All Those Roses*. 🌹

In the Collected volume, the stories we're considering run from 'Reduced' to 'Summer Night'. www.tickettailor.com/checkout/vie...

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The Elizabeth Bowen Society @bowensociety.bsky.social · Sep 8

FORTHCOMING:
*The Aesthetic of Elizabeth Bowen’s Novels - Light, Atmosphere, Fragmentation, and Sensation* (2026) by Diana Hirst

This is the first monograph to evaluate Elizabeth Bowen’s ‘verbal painting’, and the first to acknowledge the influence of the East Kent landscape in her novels.

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The Elizabeth Bowen Society @bowensociety.bsky.social · Sep 4

Elizabeth Bowen features in a 1970 BBC documentary currently available to watch on the BBC iPlayer.

Omnibus - Virginia Woolf: A Night's Darkness, A Day's Sail

'I know she was a genius.' EB on VW

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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Niamh Dowdall @dowdalln.bsky.social · Sep 3

Very much wish I could go to this. If you’re in Cork, it looks like a lovely event to remember Eibhear Walshe.

The Elizabeth Bowen Society @bowensociety.bsky.social · Sep 3

Wednesday, 10th Sep

Green Carnations: Remembering Eibhear Walshe

FREE - Book: Eventbrite

The School of English and Digital Humanities, UCC, invites you to a symposium in honour of the late Dr Eibhear Walshe.

12:30 - 7:30pm
www.eventbrite.ie/e/green-carn...

Green Carnations: Remembering Eibhear Walshe

The School of English and Digital Humanities, UCC, invites you to a symposium in honour of the late Dr Eibhear Walshe.

www.eventbrite.ie

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The Elizabeth Bowen Society @bowensociety.bsky.social · Sep 3

Wednesday, 10th Sep

Green Carnations: Remembering Eibhear Walshe

FREE - Book: Eventbrite

The School of English and Digital Humanities, UCC, invites you to a symposium in honour of the late Dr Eibhear Walshe.

12:30 - 7:30pm
www.eventbrite.ie/e/green-carn...

Green Carnations: Remembering Eibhear Walshe

The School of English and Digital Humanities, UCC, invites you to a symposium in honour of the late Dr Eibhear Walshe.

www.eventbrite.ie

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The Elizabeth Bowen Society @bowensociety.bsky.social · Aug 28

All welcome to join the September Bowen Reading Group.

24th Sep - 7pm BST - online. Free!

We're reading & discussing *Look at All Those Roses*. 🌹

In the Collected volume, the stories we're considering run from 'Reduced' to 'Summer Night'. Link in comments.

www.tickettailor.com/checkout/vie...

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The Elizabeth Bowen Society @bowensociety.bsky.social · Aug 12

Great to meet you, Dominic 🙌

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The Elizabeth Bowen Society @bowensociety.bsky.social · Aug 12

🌹 A little reading reminder for the next Bowen Reading Group 🌹

24th Sep - 7pm BST - online.

We're reading & discussing *Look at All Those Roses*.

Link soon.

#bowenreadinggroup #ElizabethBowen #ElizabethBowenSociety #lookatallthoseroses #shortfiction #shortstories

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The Elizabeth Bowen Society @bowensociety.bsky.social · Jul 30

Save the date!
Bowen Reading Group.

24th Sep - 7pm BST - online.

We're reading & discussing *Look at All Those Roses*.

Link to follow soon 🌹

#bowenreadinggroup #ElizabethBowen #ElizabethBowenSociety #lookatallthoseroses #shortfiction #shortstories

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The Elizabeth Bowen Society @bowensociety.bsky.social · Jul 27

Weds 30th July, 7pm - Bowen Reading Group.
We're reading & discussing *The Cat Jumps*. Lots of wit, poking at snobbery, & beautiful language.

Online. Free!

× In the Collected, the stories we're considering run from 'The Tommy Crans' to 'The Apple Tree' x

www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...

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The Elizabeth Bowen Society @bowensociety.bsky.social · Jul 26

‘When I visit other big houses, I am struck by some quality that they all have—not so much isolation as mystery. Each house seems to live its own spell and that is the spell that falls on the visitor from the moment he passes in at the gates.’ Elizabeth Bowen @crawfordartgallery.bsky.social

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The Elizabeth Bowen Society @bowensociety.bsky.social · Jul 9

Reminder for the July Bowen Reading Group - link in comments!

30th July - 7pm BST - online. Free. All welcome.

We're reading & discussing *The Cat Jumps*. 🐈‍⬛️

In the Collected volume, the stories we're considering run from 'The Tommy Crans' to 'The Apple Tree'.

www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...

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The Elizabeth Bowen Society @bowensociety.bsky.social · Jun 27

The Elizabeth Bowen Review, Vol. 6, June 2025, is now published online. Link: share.google/18hi5HDg5DWr...

share.google

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The Elizabeth Bowen Society @bowensociety.bsky.social · Jun 24

Bowen Reading Group - link for 30th July - 7pm BST - online. Free. All welcome.

We're reading & discussing *The Cat Jumps*. 🐈‍⬛️

In the Collected volume, the stories we're considering run from 'The Tommy Crans' to 'The Apple Tree'.

www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...

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The Elizabeth Bowen Society @bowensociety.bsky.social · Jun 9

Bowen Reading Group - save the date!

30th July - 7pm BST - online.

We're reading & discussing *The Cat Jumps*.

Link to follow 🐈‍⬛️

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Nuala O'Connor @nualaoconnor.bsky.social · Jun 7

Happy birthday, Elizabeth Bowen- born 7th June 1899, in Dublin.

Join us to celebrate with our Annual Bowen Birthday Lecture, featuring Jessica Gildersleeve. Online - 7th June, 7pm, BST - free!

Link in comments.

www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...

Select tickets – Elizabeth Bowen Society Annual Birthday Lecture - Jessica Gildersleeve

Christmas at Bowen's Court: Elizabeth Bowen's Christmas Ghost Stories 'Whenever five or six English-speaking people meet round ...

www.tickettailor.com

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The Elizabeth Bowen Society @bowensociety.bsky.social · Jun 6

Final reminder for our free, online Bowen Birthday lecture tomorrow. Join us!
www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...

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The Elizabeth Bowen Society @bowensociety.bsky.social · Jun 2

BIRTHDAY LECTURE Join us for our Annual Bowen Birthday Lecture, with Jessica Gildersleeve. Online - 7th June, 7pm, BST - free!

Christmas at Bowen’s Court: Elizabeth Bowen’s Christmas Ghost Stories.

www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...

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The Elizabeth Bowen Society @bowensociety.bsky.social · May 23

Belfast Bowenites! An afternoon Bowen birthday event for you at Crescent Arts centre on 7th June.

*Reading Elizabeth Bowen* with Tessa Hadley

Saturday 07 June 2025

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

£30 | £25

See @crescentarts.bsky.social for booking info.

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