What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: Elizabeth Bowen 1899-1973 writer lived here 1925-1935 Recorded plaque organisation: Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board.
Elizabeth Bowen was an Irish novelist and short story writer known for her psychological insight and depiction of the tensions within upper-class British and Irish society; she lived at this address during a formative period in her literary development, from 1925 to 1935.
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