Roundup: Records.

And some other stuff.

Orpheus and Eurydice, Robert Beyschlag. This image is from… a eugenics textbook??

If I were to make a list of authors whose books I keep buying with a vague intention of one day reading them, Elizabeth Bowen wouldn’t be at the very top, but she’s somewhere on there. (Though now, looking through my physical books, I find that there are books by Bowen I think I own that I don’t own, so possibly she tops a list of authors whose books I think I keep buying, but am not actually buying…?)

Anyway, thanks to Dawn Miranda Sherratt-Bado at the Dublin Review of Books, I now also have a book about Elizabeth Bowen to add to this list. In “Haunted Houses,” a review of Julia Parry’s The Shadowy Third: Love, Letters, and Elizabeth Bowen, Sherratt-Bado examines “previously unpublished exchanges between Bowen and her first extramarital lover, Parry’s late grandfather Humphry House”:

For much of Parry’s life, the relationship between Bowen and House remained a delicate subject and thus a mysterious part o…