Bowen

[ boh-uhn ]

noun

1. Cath·er·ine (Sho·ber) Drink·er [kath, -er-in , shoh, -ber , dring, -ker, kath, -rin], 1897–1973, U.S. biographer and essayist.
2. Elizabeth (Dorothea Cole), 1899–1973, Anglo-Irish novelist and short-story writer.

Bowen

/ ˈbəʊən /

noun

1. BowenElizabeth (Dorothea Cole)18991973FBritishIrishWRITING: novelistWRITING: short-story writer Elizabeth ( Dorothea Cole ). 1899–1973, British novelist and short-story writer, born in Ireland. Her novels include The Death of the Heart (1938) and The Heat of the Day (1949)

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The original work of Bowen was focused on the dynamics within a nuclear family.

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One case in particular became the focus of Stuart Bowen, Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction.

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On August 18, an IED killed Private First Class Morris Walker and Staff Sergeant Clayton Bowen during a reconnaissance mission.

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This, he learned by watching May Bowen; however, to his chagrin, he never did get his grandmother's deviled crab recipe.

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Your influences include William Trevor, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Dickens, Graham Greene, V.S. Pritchett, and Elizabeth Bowen.

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I have a mild grievance against that talented lady, Miss Marjorie Bowen, for labelling her latest novel "a romantic fantasy."

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It is from the plots and counter-plots, the machinations and subterfuges that follow that Miss Bowen justifies her title.

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On the western side of the hills of Cape Bowen there is a track of low land, separating them from another rocky range.

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Laid in the picturesque eighteenth century, they all exhibit Miss Bowen's very pretty gift for costume-drama at its happiest.

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St. Vincent immediately made him a commander into the vacancy caused by the death of Captain Bowen, who had fallen in the assault.

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