In November 1874 a great change came in Marie's life when her mother engaged for her children an English nurse, Sarah Mew
, a Wesleyan of a rigid type, though she had leanings towards Methodism
Friends, Associates
Marie Belloc Lowndes
As a child she had already met several distinguished writers in England, and Mary Clarke Mohl
and Turgenev
in France.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan, 1941.
369-70
As a young adult she quickly became known to many eminent members of the...
Intertextuality and Influence
Marie Belloc Lowndes
MBL
decided in her teens that she wanted to be a writer. In 1887, with the encouragement of her mother
(who was based in France) the two of them embarked on a winter in the...
