Love's Civil War: Letters and Diaries, 1941-1973
- ISBN-10
- 1847372139
- ISBN-13
- 9781847372130
- Category
- Diplomats
- Pages
- 489
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Authors
- Elizabeth Bowen, Victoria Glendinning, Charles Ritchie
Description
The love affair between the writer Elizabeth Bowen and the elegant and charming Canadian diplomat Charles Ritchie blossomed quickly after their first meeting in 1941 and continued over the next three decades until Bowen's death in 1973. Theirs was a passion that flourished in the heightened, dangerous atmosphere of wartime London that Bowen wrote about so vividly in her novels. When Ritchie's diplomatic career took him further afield -- to Paris, Bonn, New York and Ottawa -- the lovers wrote to one another continuously, sharing their hopes and fears, their boundless affection for one another, and their longing to be together again. Published for the first time in this exquisite volume, accompanied by extracts from Ritchie's remarkably candid diaries, the love letters of Elizabeth Bowen reveal a passionate, intelligent, eloquent, strong-minded and wonderfully funny woman. They also reveal a man bewitched by her writer's mind and imagination, and by her adoring vision of him as a greater man than he ever felt himself to be.
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