Elizabeth Bowen – Colin Brady

Bowen in Convocation

I’ve come into Oxford on a quiet August day and as I’ve been reading Elizabeth Bowen’s A Time in Rome over these days of excessive heat, my mind has wandered to her links with this city and its university, remembering that I have previously said that some day I’ll take time to dig into theContinue reading “Bowen in Convocation”

Bednarowska reads Bowen

I was looking for something else entirely in the basement of Oxford’s Campion Hall when I came upon a little Elizabeth Bowen collection. Opening each volume I noted that they had come from the library of Dorothy Bednarowska (1915-2003), a founding fellow along with Iris Murdoch and others, of St Anne’s College in Oxford. AContinue reading “Bednarowska reads Bowen”