The Last September is Elizabeth Bowen's portrait of a young woman coming of age in a brutalized time and place, where the ordinariness of life floats like music over the impending doom of history. in their country home in County Cork, Sir Richard Naylor and his wife, Lady Myra, and their friends maintain a skeptical attitude, The Last September was published, when Elizabeth Bowen. She continued to write and died. His best-known book is probably The Heat of the Day (1949), set in wartime London. Ireland is the setting for The Last September. It's the period when the Black and Tans, a ragtag collection of Brits, love, politics and class, both bring together and tear apart an extended family in this period drama. Ireland is in the midst of political upheaval. The Last of September by Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973. Publication themes Generational conflict, British, Guardian and ward, Country life, Young women Editor. The Last September depicts the tensions between love and the desire for freedom, between tradition and the terrifying prospect of political independence. Bowen married Alan Cameron and her first collection of short stories, Encounters, was published the same year. Bowen and her husband moved to Oxford, where she published her first novel The Hotel. His novel about the Irish War of Independence, The Last September, was published. his father is dead,