From contemporary documents, family records, legend, Elizabeth
Bowen has reconstructed the biography of her ancestors, and of
Bowen's Court, Cork County, Ireland. Care, affection and reverence
have gone into this recreation of generations typical of their
times and their class, Anglo-Irish gentry of means and traditions.
Exclusive in interest as it may be, much of it is rewarding
reading, even beyond the fine portraiture and tasteful writing.
Behind the personal record is a record of Ireland over several
centuries, the perpetual, persistent struggle for freedom, the
great religious controversies, the famine, etc. Outstanding in a
long list of Bowens were three, - Henry I, whose apparition was to
haunt his wife and who won the land by a hawk's flight; Henry III,
who built the grandly conceived, bare, Italianate house; Henry VI,
her grandfather, a forceful hard man. A fine piece of work,
somewhat specialized in appeal. (Kirkus Reviews)
In SEVEN WINTERS Elizabeth Brown recalls with endearing candour her family and her Dublin childhood as seen through the eyesof a child who could not read till she was seven and who fed her imagination only on sights and sounds. BOWEN'S COURT describes the history of one Anglo-Irish family in County Cork from the Cromwellian settlement until 1959, when the author, the last of the Bowens, was forced to sell the house she loved. With the mastery skill that is also the hallmark of her novels she reviews ten generations of Bowens as representative of a class - the Protestant Irish gentry. Their lives were ones of fanatical commitment to property, lawsuits, formidable matriachs, violent conflicts, hunting, drinking and breeding, self- destructive and self-sustaining fantasies...
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