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John Bowen (born November 5, 1924, Calcutta [now Kolkata], India—died April 18, 2019) was a British playwright and novelist noted for examining the complexity and ambivalence of human motives and behaviour. Bowen was the son of a British business manager working in India.
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In 1816 Bowen joined Calman and Henry Jessop (a son of William Jessop of the Butterley Co), in charge of an adventurous mission to transport the cast iron components of a large iron bridge, and a pumping engine, upriver from Calcutta to Lucknow. 70 boats and 900 boatmen were employed.
John Bowen is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature. He joined the Department in 2005 from Keele University, where he was Professor of Modern English Literature. His main research areas are in nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, in particular the works of Charles Dickens and other major Victorian novelists, but he has also written ...
Writing career. Advertising and early theatre work. Bowen returned to Britain in 1953, moved to London and spent three years as an assistant editor on The Sketch magazine.
JOHN BOWEN, (1785-1854) was the elder son of Edward Bowen, a shipwright, who came from Glamorgan, and married the daughter of a shop-keeper named Hayes. John’s formal education was limited, and as a young boy his mother taught him to read. He read aloud to her as she worked at her quilting frame.
Sep 2, 2020 · Undercover in the Jungle is the remarkable memoir of his time with “V” Force and Force 136. He also wrote three novels, one of them about a young officer in the Indian Army during the Second World War, which remain unpublished. In 1941 he married Elaine Winbolt Lewis, who became a Wren officer.
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Apr 4, 2024 · John Bowen is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of York. His main research areas are in nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, in particular the works of Charles Dickens and other major Victorian novelists, but he has also written on modern poetry and fiction, as well as essays on literary theory.
