Stella Bowen: Green End
Art, Love and War
- Periods:
- To England
- An artist's journey
- Inner worlds
- The return to England
- The war years
Period: The return to England
Stella Bowen was forced to return to England by the French currency crisis in 1933. She was unhappy living in London and with the onset of war again sought a refuge in the countryside. She found that it “had a sweet consoling quality and its old cottages still suggested a life of peace, security and ease of mind”.
Bowen lived at Green End on and off from 1939 until her death in 1947. It was at Green End that she wrote her autobiography, Drawn from life.