Love's Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen and Charles Ritchie by Victoria Glendinning

Love's Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen and Charles Ritchie by Victoria Glendinning

The love affair between the celebrated writer Elizabeth Bowen and the elegant and charming Canadian diplomat Charles Ritchie blossomed quickly after their first meeting in 1941 and continued over the next three decades until Bowen's death. Published for the first time, accompanied by extracts from Ritchie's remarkably candid diaries, the love letters of Elizabeth Bowen reveal an intelligent, passionate and wonderfully funny woman. In her letters and his diaries we hear the lovers' voices. Set against an ever-changing backdrop, from the Second World War to the Swinging Sixties, and featuring a glorious cast of socialites, writers and politicians, including Nancy Mitford, Iris Murdoch, Isaiah Berlin and John F Kennedy, Love's Civil War is at once a fascinating and intimate portrait of a great love that endures distance, circumstance and time.

Victoria Glendinning is the award-winning biographer of Elizabeth Bowen, Leonard Woolf, Anthony Trollope, Edith Sitwell, Vita Sackville-West, Rebecca West and Jonathan Swift. Her novels, The Grown-Ups, Electricity and Flight, were critical and commercial successes. She divides her time between London, Provence and Ireland.

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ISBN 13	9781847392343
ISBN 10	1847392342
Title	Love's Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen and Charles Ritchie
Author	Victoria Glendinning
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Simon & Schuster Ltd
Year published	2010-02-04
Number of pages	496
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