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.

Connections

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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...
Occupation Lady Cynthia Asquith
She needed the money, since she and her husband (still in France) both had debts. She worked three or four days a week, whatever hours suited her (she was free, for instance, to take school...
Textual Production Lady Cynthia Asquith
Her ten anthologies edited during the 1920s (some of them under pseudonyms such as Leonard Gray) had some significance for the writing of that decade, since they incorporated contributions from, for instance, Marghanita Laski
death Stella Benson
When Woolf heard of her death she wrote in her diary of her sense of loss. And now, so quickly, it is gone, what might have been a friendship. Trusty & patient & very sincere—I...
Textual Production Stella Benson
SB had asked that no incomplete work of hers should be published posthumously. Her husband believed that she was quite happy about her writing, was sure of herself there, and had no thought of not...
Occupation Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
At about this time she painted her finest water-colour, a large painting of the plain of Blidah in Algiers, showing honey-coloured sand, sparsely covered with grey olive trees, blue cacti, and alfa [sic]...
Friends, Associates Ann Bridge
Textual Production Ann Bridge
Susan Lowndes (daughter of novelist Marie Belloc Lowndes and so grand-daughter of suffragist Bessie Rayner Parkes ) was an old friend of AB and was resident in Portugal with her Portuguese husband. The two of...
Friends, Associates Rhoda Broughton
RB 's vitality, sincerity, and pungent wit gained her the friendship of some of the most notable people of her day.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Her wide circle of friends and acquaintances included Henry James (the two became extremely...
Wealth and Poverty Rhoda Broughton
In her diary Marie Belloc Lowndes mentions an episode in 1909 when a man called to see RB , saying he was a friend but refusing to give his name. When she would not see...
Friends, Associates Rhoda Broughton
There her near-salon was attended by men and women belonging to every stratum of political, literary, and artistic society.
Times. Times Publishing Company.
(7 June 1920): 17
To the great regret of Marie Belloc Lowndes , Broughton in the...
Literary responses Rhoda Broughton
In a lamentable
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus.
217
article on the death of Virginia Woolf , Hugh Walpole accused literary ladies of acting like priestesses engaged in throwing fragrant incense on their own altars. The first name he mentions...
Textual Production Rhoda Broughton
RB 's final novel, A Fool in Her Folly, was published posthumously, with a preface by Marie Belloc Lowndes .
Wood, Marilyn. Rhoda Broughton: Profile of a Novelist. Paul Watkins.
116
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Literary responses Frances Hodgson Burnett
FHB was a focus of media attention—occasionally hostile but often flattering—throughout her career. The title of Marie A. Belloc 's interview Mrs. Hodgson Burnett. A Famous Authoress at Home (in the Idler, 9, 1896)...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Charles
Combe Edge soon became a noted centre of religous, philanthropic, and social activity.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan.
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Marie Belloc Lowndes , who stayed there for many weekends as a child with her mother, Bessie Rayner Belloc (formerly Parkes)

Timeline

By 13 November 1886: Maxwell Gray (whose real name was Mary Gleed...

Women writers item

By 13 November 1886

Maxwell Gray (whose real name was Mary Gleed Tuttiet ) published her well-known and highly successful novelThe Silence of Dean Maitland.

By autumn 1896: French erotic writer Pierre Louÿs, already...

Writing climate item

By autumn 1896

French erotic writer Pierre Louÿs , already notorious for the lesbian Songs of Bilitis, 1895, printed at his own expense his best-known work, Aphrodite, about a courtesan in ancient Alexandria.

2 July 1914: The first issue of the magazine Blast, edited...

Building item

2 July 1914

The first issue of the magazine Blast, edited by Wyndham Lewis , formally announced the arrival of Vorticism, an avant-garde movement in art.

January 1921: The Englishwoman, a monthly forum for serious...

Building item

January 1921

The Englishwoman, a monthly forum for serious feminist discussion, ceased publication in London.

21 July 1945: Just before the general election, Marie Belloc...

National or international item

21 July 1945

Just before the general election, Marie Belloc Lowndes reported that empty houses in London were being requisitioned because of the housing shortage caused by bombing.

Texts

Broughton, Rhoda, and Marie Belloc Lowndes. A Fool in Her Folly. Odhams, 1920.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. “A Marriage Under the Terror”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 435, p. 174.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. A Passing World. Macmillan, 1948.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Barbara Rebell. W. Heinemann, 1905.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus, 1971.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc, and Marie L. Shedlock. Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, with Letters, and Leaves from their Journals. W. Heinemann, 1894.
Elizabeth Northcote, Countess of Iddesleigh, and Marie Belloc Lowndes. “Foreword”. The Young Hilaire Belloc, P. J. Kenedy, 1956.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Good Old Anna. Hutchinson, 1915.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan, 1941.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. “Interplay”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 350, p. 309.
Elizabeth Northcote, Countess of Iddesleigh, et al. “List of Books by Mrs Belloc Lowndes, Foreword”. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947, edited by Susan Lowndes Marques and Susan Lowndes Marques, Chatto and Windus, 1971, pp. prelims, 1 - 3.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Lizzie Borden. Hutchinson, 1940.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. “Notes on New Foreign Books”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 414, p. 504.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. She Dwelt with Beauty. Macmillan, 1949.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. “Some French Gift Books”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 361, p. 467.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Studies in Love and in Terror. Methuen, 1913.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Studies in Wives. W. Heinemann, 1910.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. The Chink in the Armour. Methuen, 1912.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. The End of her Honeymoon. Methuen, 1914.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. The Heart of Penelope. W. Heinemann, 1904.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. The Lodger. Methuen, 1913.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. The Merry Wives of Westminster. Macmillan, 1946.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. The Philosophy of the Marquise. G. Richards, 1899.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. The Pulse of Life. W. Heinemann, 1908.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. The Red Cross Barge. Smith, Elder, 1916.