Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Marie Belloc Lowndes
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Standard Name: Lowndes, Marie Belloc
Birth Name: Marie Adelaide Elizabeth Renée Julia Belloc
Nickname: Mary
Married Name: Marie Adelaide Elizabeth Renée Julia Lowndes
Indexed Name: Mrs Belloc Lowndes
Pseudonym: Philip Curtin
Pseudonym: Elizabeth Rayner
During a career that spanned nearly fifty years from 1889, MBL
published journalism, biography, a guidebook, history for children, novels (mostly romances or thrillers), a book about actual crimes, and four late volumes of autobiography. Her books of crime and detection were her most successful. Her list of titles numbers more than seventy.
Marie Belloc Lowndes
thought this a strange, powerful story, but liked it less than some of JF
's earlier work.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. The Merry Wives of Westminster. Macmillan.
57
The Times obituary on JF
referred to this novel's brilliant portrait and caricature of...
Literary responses
Lucas Malet
In 1902 The Lucas Malet Birthday Book, compiled by G. Olivia Dethridge
, testified to LM
's market appeal at this stage of her career.
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In 1944 Marie Belloc Lowndes
listed her as among...
Literary responses
May Sinclair
While other friends had reservations, Anthony Deane
told MS
that this was the very best book he had read for a long time.
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press.
95
It received far better reviews in the USA than at home...
Literary responses
Julia Frankau
Marie Belloc Lowndes
later wrote that Baccarat was thirty years ahead of its time, and had it been signed by Guy de Maupassant
it would have become and remained famous.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. The Merry Wives of Westminster. Macmillan.
57
Literary responses
May Sinclair
Marie Belloc Lowndes
wrote to tell MS
she thought this her best book so far, though Sinclair did not agree with her.
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press.
166
Literary responses
Elizabeth Charles
Although she made little money, EC
made a name for herself with the Chronicles. The novel went through several editions, as well as being translated into many European languages, Arabic, and numerous Indian dialects...
Leisure and Society
Mary Cholmondeley
MC
founded a weekly luncheon club for women writers called the Give and Take
. Marie Belloc Lowndes
was an early member. The price of lunch was two shillings and sixpence, and the club outlived...
Leisure and Society
Violet Trefusis
Marie Belloc Lowndes
recorded in 1945 that VT
looked and dressed as if she was twenty-eight, was a fascinating talker who liked to hold the floor, and had wonderful joie de vivre.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus.
264
Leisure and Society
Margaret Kennedy
She belonged to, among other literary clubs, the Liberal Book Club
and the 30 Club, which consisted of a group of women writers who met for lunch at the Ritz Grill. Other members...
Intertextuality and Influence
Agatha Christie
Captain Hastings, an ambitious detective, narrates an ingenious plot by a pair of criminals to stage their arrest and acquittal, only to have Poirot solve and reveal their actual crime. Poirot is described as an...
Intertextuality and Influence
Lady Cynthia Asquith
LCA
's first published writing, an article entitled How to sit for your portrait, appeared in the Times; she had written it at the suggestion of Marie Belloc Lowndes
, who admired her...
Following her early conquest of Tennyson
, AM
went on to develop a large circle of literary acquaintances. Callers on the Meynells at Palace Court included Irish writer Katharine Tynan
, Aubrey Beardsley
(while he...
Friends, Associates
Violet Trefusis
The following year Lowndes
stayed with Trefusis at West Coker Manor.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus.
273
At this time VT
nurtured her (often edgy) relationship with writer Nancy Mitford
, who moved from England to Paris in April...
Friends, Associates
Mary Agnes Hamilton
MAH
knew and worked closely with the Labour leader Ramsay MacDonald
, though her early intense admiration for him diminished with time. Up to the year after publishing her book on him (which was also...