Gloves and Scarf: Because It Is Dangerous

“Dress has never been at all a straightforward business; so much subterranean interest and complex feeling attaches to it. As a topic, it is popular because it is dangerous – it has a flowery head but deep roots in our passions. On the subject of dress, almost no one, for one reason or another, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them somebody else’s do.”

- Elizabeth Bowen -

Elizabeth Bowen - County Cork Ireland

Her husband retired in 1952 and they settled in Bowen’s Court, where Alan Cameron died a few months later. Many writers visited her at Bowen's Court, including Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, and Carson McCullers. For years Bowen struggled to keep the house going, lecturing in the United States to earn money. In 1959 the house was sold and demolished.