Elizabeth Bowen
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Angus McBean Photograph. © Harvard Theatre Collection, Harvard University.
Elizabeth Bowen
by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1948
11 3/8 in. x 9 1/2 in. (290 mm x 241 mm)
Purchased, 2001
Primary Collection
NPG P887
Artistback to top
- Angus McBean (1904-1990), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 283 portraits, Sitter in 79 portraits.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Pepper, Terence, Angus McBean Portraits, 2006 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 5 July to 22 October 2006), p. 91 Read entry
Elizabeth Bowen, short-story writer, novelist and critic, was born to a wealthy landowner and barrister in County Cork and was brought up in Dublin before attending Downe House School in Kent. Her first collection of stories was published in 1923, the year in which she also married. Best known for The Death of the Heart (1938) and The Heat of the Day 1949), Bowen also wrote literary criticism, which appeared for many years in The Tatler. The publication of McBean’s full-page portrait of her there signalled the end of that literary association.
Events of 1948back to top
Current affairs
Prince Charles is born in Buckingham Palace; he is the first son of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of EdinburghThe Secretary of State for Health, Aneurin Bevan, introduces the National Health Service. Health services in Britain were now funded from central taxation and free at the point of use for every resident of the country.
Art and science
The First Morris Minor car designed by Alec Issigonis and his team (also responsible for the Mini) takes to the road, becoming a popular and classic English design.F.R. Leavis publishes his influential study of the English novel, The Great Tradition. The book set out Leavis's ideas on the proper relationship between literary form and moral concern.
International
The policy of Apartheid is adopted in South Africa. Apartheid was a set of laws allowing racial segregation and discrimination against the black majority by the white ruling class.As part of the dispute between Western and Soviet controlled Berlin, the Soviet Union blockades West Berlin, cutting off supplies. Anxious to avoid a conflict, America, Britain and France responded by flying in food and other provisions.
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