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.
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Leisure and Society | Violet Trefusis | Marie Belloc Lowndes
recorded in 1945 that VT
looked and dressed as if she was twenty-eight, was a fascinating talker who liked to hold the floor, and had wonderful joie de vivre. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus, 1971. 264 |
Literary responses | May Sinclair | While other friends had reservations, Anthony Deane
told MS
that this was the very best book he had read for a long time. qtd. in Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press, 2000. 95 |
Literary responses | Violet Hunt | Sooner or Later received (perhaps excessively) high praise from a number of VH
's contemporaries. Marie Belloc Lowndes
(daughter of Bessie Rayner Parkes
) wrote in The Merry Wives of Westminster, 1946, that it... |
Literary responses | May Sinclair | Marie Belloc Lowndes
wrote to tell MS
she thought this her best book so far, though Sinclair did not agree with her. Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press, 2000. 166 |
Literary responses | Vernon Lee | Marie Belloc Lowndes
, who knew VL
fairly well, felt out of sympathy with her frightening erudition and off-putting snobbery—but she was indignant at Anatole France
's caricature of Lee in Le lys rouge. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Where Love and Friendship Dwelt. Macmillan, 1943. 177 |
Literary responses | Rebecca West | Marie Belloc Lowndes
considered this one of the best critical books in the language. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus, 1971. 217 |
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... |
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, 1990. |
Literary responses | Blanche Warre Cornish | On the basis of this piece, Marie Belloc Lowndes
felt in 1946 that if the circumstances of Cornish's life had been different she too might have become a famous writer. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. The Merry Wives of Westminster. Macmillan, 1946. 36 |
Literary responses | Patricia Wentworth | |
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. |
Literary responses | Mary Augusta Ward | Critically, MAW
has not fared well since her death, despite her immense popularity in her lifetime and the seriousness with which her contemporaries read her. She was quickly cast as more Victorian than Edwardian... |
Literary responses | E. M. Delafield | Marie Belloc Lowndes
, a Roman Catholic, observed in late 1945 that EMD
's early anti-Catholic suffered from a failure of realism, being filled with fantastic imaginary figures of the old Catholic world. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus, 1971. Lowndes, Diaries 267 |
Literary responses | Evelyn Underhill | Marie Belloc Lowndes
thought this novel and The Grey World had a quality of poetical beauty no writer has since attained. She deplored a later slighting reference to these novels, and liked them better than... |
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. qtd. in Gunn, Kirsty. “How the Laundry Basket Squeaked”. London Review of Books, Vol. 35 , No. 7, 12 Apr. 2013, pp. 25-6. 25 |
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