ELIZABETH BOWEN(ISBN=) 英文原版

“Intense and illuminating…a highly readable, compassionate
account of a woman as subtly complex and delightfully witty as the
novels she wrote.” —Chicago Tribune

“As a complex and compelling personality, Miss Bowen comes very
much to life on these pages…entirely absorbing.” —The New York
Times

Victoria Glendinning was born in the north of England and read
French and Spanish at Oxford. Her first book was A Suppressed
Cry, a family memoir about her Quaker great-aunt. She has
written biographies of Edith Sitwell (which won the James Tait
Black Award and the Duff Cooper Prize), Vita Sackville-West
(Whitbread Prize for Biography), Rebecca West, Anthony Trollope
(Whitbread Prize for Biography), Jonathan Swift, and Leonard Woolf.
She co-edited Mothers and Sons with her son Matthew
Glendinning, and has published three novels, The
Grown-Ups, Electricity, and Flight.
She reviews books for national newspapers and journals, has been a
judge of the W. H. Smith Prize and other literary awards, and chair
of the judges of the Booker Prize. From 2000-03 she was president
of English PEN. She is an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College,
Oxford, and was awarded a CBE in 1998.