Elizabeth Bowen Society Reading Group - Encounters

We are thrilled to invite you to the first Elizabeth Bowen Society Reading Group of 2025! For January, we’ll journey back to the very beginning of Bowen’s literary career with a re-reading of her debut short story collection, Encounters (1923). Bowen described this collection as "a ring of emotion . . . which, in fact, was transposed biography" ("Preface" to Encounters in The Mulberry Tree). As Bowen herself celebrated "the newness of the sensation of writing anything", we invite you to embrace the "newness" of re-discovering her earliest works with fresh perspectives and a renewed eye ("Preface").