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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Elizabeth Bowen
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(1899–1973) Irish writer who spent the middle years of her life in England and set many of her novels and short stories in London. She was adept at suggesting the subtle anxieties of everyday existence – she described her subject matter as 'the cracks in the surface of life' – and she found ideal material in the fashionable London world of the 1930s (seen through a child's eyes in The Death of the Heart 1938) and in wartime London (the setting of her most widely read book, The Heat of the Day 1949).
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