"From this time on, Bowen will travel back and forth between England and Ireland, both in reality and in his imagination" (Ellmann 9). While living in Ireland, he lived at Bowen's Court, his family's vast and luxurious estate ("Collection 13" 1017). During the summers he lived in Bowen's Court and during the winters he lived in Dublin. He subsequently moved from England to Ireland several more times before his death. During that time, she had been involved in two world wars, married, worked as a nurse, and served as an air raid guard (Ellmann). Elizabeth's early life led her to have a sense of displacement parallel to that experienced by Mrs. Drover in The Demon Lover when she had to move to the countryside during the First World War. Elizabeth Bowen was separated from her father when she and her mother moved to New York. England. This was due in part to his father's mental state. In 1905, his father died of mental illness, diagnosed as “anemia of the brain” (Ellmann 27). His father, Henry, had to “work in a high-pressure office” for the Irish Land Commission (Glendinning 28). As her mental state progressively worsened, the people around Elizabeth and her mother became very concerned about their well-being