San Antonio College Library

"Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes an overview of the writer's background, an analysis of her works, an assessment of her achievements, and lists of primary and secondary sources. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography."--Jacket.

Elizabeth Bowen is recognized as a major twentieth-century British writer. Her novels, stories, and family history, Bowen's Court, chronicle the impact of Anglo-Irish social and political upheaval on the personal lives and relations of her characters. Her novels of manners, such as The Death of the Heart (1938), expose the fragility of a traditional society in their psychological studies of men and women torn between social convention and personal...

Nine contemporary Irish women poets focus on their relationship between their poetry & life experiences such as childhood, religion, marriage, language, politics, & the literary climate in Ireland for women. A collection of essays written by well-known contemporary Irish women poets about their lives in relation to their own poetics.