I do not love her in bed. It is you I love : A literary legend, a betrayed wife and an extraordinary love triangle - as revealed in a trove of passionate letters between novelist Elizabeth Bowen, her lover and his wife Madeline, found after 90 years
Teacher Julia Parry uncovered her grandfather s letters to his wife and his mistress in an old box in the attic
Humphry House s mistress was the renowned Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen
For decades they were locked away but are now being published in a new book that reveals a fascinating, and at times painful, literary love triangle
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Love triangles at the heart of the Bloomsbury set revealed Donna Ferguson
She is one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, an Anglo-Irish novelist and celebrated intellectual who hung out with the Bloomsbury set and wrote a masterpiece about the second world war.
Now, a set of extraordinary, previously unpublished letters from Elizabeth Bowen – author of
The Heat of the Day – sheds new light on the author’s “obsession” with love triangles and motherless children in her fiction. The letters date from 1933, when Bowen, then 33, embarks on a love affair with the academic Humphry House, then 24, after she is invited to an all-male luncheon at Wadham College, Oxford.
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