Elizabeth Bowen Quote

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted when you find it taken for granted you are unnerved.

Elizabeth Bowen

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted when you find it taken for granted you are unnerved.

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About Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen ( BOH-ən; 7 June 1899 – 22 February 1973) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer notable for her books about "the Big House" of Irish landed Protestants as well as her fiction about life in wartime London.
In 1958, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature by Russian-American linguist Roman Jakobson.