Marjorie Bowen
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A woman who earned her living by writing fiction—with occasional essays in that kind of history deplored by historians.
was an extraordinarily prolific popular writer, producing over 150 books during her life-long writing career, which ran to the mid twentieth century. Her generic repertoire was also large, and included children's books, biographies, short stories, critical studies, and novels dealing with romance, the supernatural, and history. In her autobiography, she describes herself thus:
Biography
Marjorie Bowen to avoid confusion with her mother's name (her mother was also a writer).
also wrote under other pseudonyms. Initially, she was given the pseudonym She likens the French name her mother gave her to the name Josephine, which was given to her mother by her grandmother, who sympathised with the French Empress.
felt that such names were part of a sentimental flavour of faded romance passed almost furtively from one generation to another by the women in her family who dreamed of such remote foreign splendours.