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.
Photograph of the cover of "The Chink in the Armour" by Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1912. It is orange with black lettering ("Mrs. Belloc Lowndes"), and a large background circle of little red balls or beads.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Reception Agatha Christie
While AC said that the idea for Hercule Poirot came to her out of the blue and was modelled on Belgian refugees she had observed in her home parish during the First World War, journalist...
Reception Julia Frankau
The novel caused scandal both to Jewish readers, who judged it anti-semitic, and to gentile readers, who found its treatment of sex outside marriage too outspoken.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
According to Marie Belloc Lowndes , Ernest Hart tacitly...
Reception Harriette Wilson
Contemporary admirers of HW on literary grounds included Walter Scott , who praised her dialogue and intelligence, and thought her out and out
Thirkell, Angela. The Fortunes of Harriette. Hamish Hamilton.
218
a better writer than Teresia Constantia Phillips or others in the...
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
Lowndes dates this offer of remuneration to...
Publishing Evelyn Sharp
In March 1912 when Emmeline and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence were arrested, ES became, almost at a moment's notice, acting editor (officially assistant editor) of Votes for Women, the official organ of the WSPU . She...
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
Marie Belloc Lowndes , who was supportive and generous with praise of this book, also told OM that her...
Publishing Elizabeth von Arnim
Marie Belloc Lowndes wrote that EAobtained very large sums for the serialisation of her books in the USA, and took the credit for having mentioned her name to the lady who then chose...
Publishing Elizabeth Charles
EC was offered £40 by Andrew Cameron , editor of the Scottish magazine Family Treasury, to write on Martin Luther . When her work was published as a historical novel, its unexpected success taught...
politics Sarah Grand
In an interview in 1896, SG made clear her belief in the need for female suffrage: We shall do no good until we get the Franchise, for however well-intentioned men may be, they cannot understand...
politics May Sinclair
MS marched, along with her friends Alice Meynell , Alice Zimmern , and Marie Belloc Lowndes , in the From Prison to Citizenship procession as a member of the Women Writers' Suffrage League .
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press.
111
politics May Sinclair
Other Vice-Presidents at this time included Margaret Baillie-Reynolds , Marie Belloc Lowndes , Sarah Grand , Emily Morse Symonds , Margaret Woods , and Edith Zangwill .
Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
96
Sinclair, however, could not approve the increasingly...
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...
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]...
Occupation Elizabeth De la Pasture
Marie Belloc Lowndes (who calls her Lady Clifford) writes that EDP spoke interestingly, in October 1925, about her experiences visiting public institutions in Ceylon. The local authorities arranged to omit the lunatic asylums...
Literary responses Katherine Mansfield
After Mansfield's death, Woolf wrote in her diary: it seemed to me there was no point in writing. Katherine won't read it.
Gunn, Kirsty. “How the Laundry Basket Squeaked”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 7, pp. 25-6.
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KM appears in episodes in more than one novel by her friend...

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Texts

Lowndes, Marie Belloc. The Story of Ivy. W. Heinemann, 1927.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. The Uttermost Farthing. W. Heinemann, 1908.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. The Young Hilaire Belloc. P. J. Kenedy, 1956.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. When No Man Pursueth. W. Heinemann, 1910.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Where Love and Friendship Dwelt. Macmillan, 1943.