Preedy, John Winch, Robert Paye and Margaret Campbell. She also wrote under the names Joseph Shearing, George R. Her total output numbers over 150 volumes with the bulk of her work under the 'Bowen' pseudonym. In an interview for Twentieth Century Authors, she listed her hobbies as "painting, needlework and reading".īowen died on 22 December 1952, after suffering serious concussion as a result of a fall in her bedroom. In 1938, Bowen was one of the signatories to a petition organised by the National Peace Council, calling for an international peace conference in an effort to avert war in Europe. Bowen had four children a son and a daughter (who died in infancy) with Costanza, and two sons with Long. She was married twice: first, from 1912 to 1916, to a Sicilian, Zefferino Emilio Constanza, who died of tuberculosis, and then to Arthur L. After this, Bowen's prolific writings were the chief financial support for her family. It went on to become a best-seller when eventually published. Her first novel, the violent historical The Viper of Milan (written when she was 16) was rejected by several publishers, who considered it inappropriate for a young woman to have written such a novel. Bowen studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and later in Paris. She and her sister grew up in poverty with a less than affectionate mother.
She had a difficult childhood her alcoholic father left the family at an early age and was eventually found dead on a London street. Bowen was born in 1885 on Hayling Island in Hampshire.
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