Elizabeth Bowen was an Irish novelist and short story writer. Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen was born on 7 June 1899 at 15 Herbert Place in Dublin and baptised in the nearby St Stephen’s Church on Upper Mount Street.
Her parents, Henry Charles Cole Bowen and Florence Bowen later brought her to Bowen’s Court at Farahy, near Kildorrery, County Cork, where she spent her summers.
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