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
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Lucas Malet | Two things about this novel gave offence initially and had a long-term effect on its reputation: its treating the nasty Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
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. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Publishing | Olivia Manning | She regarded this book as an exercise in learning how to sustain a long narrative. English, Isobel, and Olivia Manning. “Introduction”. The Wind Changes, Virago, p. v - xvi. ix |
Textual Production | Katherine Mansfield | Scholar Claire Tomalin
suspects that this refusal had to do with KM
's unacknowledged debt to Chekhov
in The Child-Who-Was-Tired. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Literary responses | Katherine Mansfield | |
Friends, Associates | Katherine Mansfield | In the south of France KM
became quickly intimate in conversation with Marie Belloc Lowndes
, another writer twenty years her senior. A correspondence followed. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus. 216 |
Friends, Associates | Alice Meynell | 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... |
Fictionalization | Alice Meynell | To many of her contemporaries (especially male contemporaries), AM
symbolised the perfection of Woman and Mother. Many descriptions of her suggest Woolf
's Mrs Ramsay in To the Lighthouse. Coventry Patmore
and Francis Thompson |
Literary responses | Margaret Oliphant | The work has been consistently admired. On its appearance the editor of The Spectator praised it for wonderful mastery of the borderland of the natural and the supernatural, Greenfield, John R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 159. Gale Research. 159: 256 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Bessie Rayner Parkes | Around this period in her life, BRP
ended a relationship with a suitor, her cousin Samuel Blackwell
, who had persisted in seeking her hand in marriage for more than ten years. Her daughter
classifies... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Bessie Rayner Parkes | Her daughter grew up to become the novelist Marie Belloc Lowndes
. Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research. 240: 189 Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan. 87 |
Publishing | Bessie Rayner Parkes | Her daughter, Marie Belloc Lowndes
, notes that BRPreceived an offer of forty pounds for a book which was to be called Peoples of France. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan. 107 |
Textual Production | Bessie Rayner Parkes | Her daughter, Marie Belloc Lowndes
, later re-used this title for a book of autobiographical reminiscence published in 1948. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Friends, Associates | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | ATR
wrote to Charlotte Yonge
a few years later, lamenting: oh! what a pity it is that we are all growing old who have had such happy happy times with one another. Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters. Editors Bloom, Abigail Burnham and John Maynard, Ohio State University Press. 242 |
Literary responses | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | In one of the many tributes published at the time of her death in 1934, friend and writer Marie Belloc Lowndes
(daughter of feminist Bessie Rayner Parkes
) said that CADSwrote certain remarkable novels... |
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