Marie Belloc Lowndes
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During a career that spanned nearly fifty years from 1889,
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.- BirthName: Marie Adelaide Elizabeth Renée Julia BellocHer many names were given in honour of various relatives and of her mother's friendsand .
- Nickname: MaryHer English relations and many of her friends used the English form of her name, Mary.
- Married: Lowndes
- Pseudonyms: Philip Curtin; Elizabeth RaynerHer second pseudonym was borrowed from the birth name of her mother. It has caused occasional confusion in library cataloguing.
- Indexed: Mrs Belloc LowndesThe appearance of her name in this form on her works caused some libraries to catalogue her as Lowndes, Belloc.