Elizabeth Bowen Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	The Short Fiction
	The Ghostly Origins of Female Character	10
	Comedies of Sex and Manners	25
	Children's "Disconcerting Questions"	41
	Comedies of Sex and Terror	54
	Elegies of Loss and Dispossession	75
	Three Masterworks	97
2	The Writer
	From "The Experience of Writing"	122
	From the Preface to The Faber Book of Modern Short Stories	123
	From a Review of Gorki Stories	127
	From the Preface to Ann Lee's and Other Stories	128
	Preface to The Demon Lover	131
	From the Preface to The Second Ghost Book	137
	"The Short Story in England"	138
	From "The Forgotten Art of Living"	144
	From "Sources of Influence"	145
	From Bowen's Court	148
3	The Critics
	William Trevor	168
	Eudora Welty	173
	Chronology	181
	Selected Bibliography	183
	Index	189