This author was accused of serving up a ";perennial dish: the tragedy of the Fine Girl and the Impossible Man"; in an essay by Elizabeth Hardwick.
This author was accused of serving up a ";perennial dish: the tragedy of the Fine Girl and the Impossible Man"; in an essay by Elizabeth Hardwick. The title character of this author's final novel is accidentally shot dead by her illegally-adopted deaf-and-dumb son Jeremy at Victoria Station shortly after Henry Dancey declares his love for her. The Montmorencys and Marda Norton visit the Naylors' estate Danielstown, based on this author's family's namesake ";court,"; in a novel set during the Irish War of Independence. Robert Kelway kills himself after revealing his status as a Nazi spy to his lover Stella Rodney in a novel by this woman set during the Blitz. The revelation that her adoptive mother Anna has been reading her diary prompts Portia Quayne to run away in a novel by this author of Eva Trout and The Last September. For 10 points, name this Anglo-Irish author of The Heat of the Day and The Death of the Heart.
This author was accused of serving up a ";perennial dish: the tragedy of the Fine Girl and the Impossible Man"; in an essay by Elizabeth Hardwick.
Elizabeth  Bowen [or Elizabeth Dorothea Cole  Bowen]