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'The Demon Lover' by Elizabeth Bowen

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Court in County Cork. In 1906, Elizabeth and her mother moved to the south coast of England as her ailing father was advised to stay home in Ireland. When her  mother died when Elizabeth was 13, she was raised by a number of aunts. Bowen attended the schools of Harpenden and Orpington in Kent and left school in 1917 (Darwood).  Bowen married Alan Cameron in 1923 and lived in Oxford where many of her friends were well known in the literary field including Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot and Graham Greene  among others. When her father died in 1930, Bowen inherited Bowens Court and she spent most of her time split between Ireland and England until she sold the Irish property  in 1960 (Darwood). In addition to traveling extensively across Europe and North America, Bowen published over 80 short stories and 10 novels in the fifty years of her publishing career.  Her best known novels were "The Last September" (1929), "The Death of Her Heart" (1938) and "The Heat of the Day" (1948) (Darwood). Her first collection of short stories was  published in 1923 while her last novel, "Eva Trout, or Changing Scenes" was published in 1969 and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 1948, Bowen was made the  Companion of the British Empire and was awarded doctorates from Trinity College, Dublin and Oxford. In 1999, on the 100th anniversary of her birth, a great many of Bowens works  were republished and released as commemorative collections (Darwood). Elizabeth Bowens short story "The Demon Lover" is considered one of her most analyzed and  controversial works in terms of content and implied intention of the writer. Written during the beginning of World War II, the story is about a woman, Mrs. Kathleen Drover, who