The Demon Lover

"The Demon Lover" is a short story by Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen. It was first published in 1945 in a book titled The Demon Lover and Other Stories. The story was referred to in The New Yorker magazine after its publication as "a completely successful explanation of what war did to the mind and spirit of the English people". The main character of this, Mrs. Drover, is traumatized after the Blitz, the catastrophic aerial bombardment whic... more

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Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen, CBE (7 June 1899 – 22 February 1973) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer. Elizabeth Bowen was born in Dublin and later brought to Bowen’s Court in County Cork where she spent her summers. When her father became mentally ill in 1907, she and her mother...
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