Elizabeth Bowen

Introduction. Writing : the enforced return -- The ghost in the house : Bowen's court (1942) and 'The back drawing-room' (1926) -- Discovery of a lack : The last September (1928) -- A ghost of style : A world of love (1955) -- Mother and child : The house in Paris (1935) -- Motherless child : The death of the heart (1938) -- Childless mother : the disfigurations of Eva Trout or changing scenes (1968) -- Words in the dark : The demon lover and other stories (1945) -- War's stories : The heat of the day (1946) and its contexts.