Marjorie Bowen

01 November 1885 - 22 December 1952

Standard Name: Bowen, Marjorie

Birth Name: Gabrielle Margaret Vere Campbell

Married Name: Gabrielle Margaret Vere Constanza

Married Name: Gabrielle Margaret Vere Long

Pseudonym: Marjorie Bowen

Pseudonym: Joseph Shearing

Pseudonym: George R. Preedy

Pseudonym: John Winch

Pseudonym: Robert Paye

Used Form: Bertha Winch

Used Form: Edgar Winch

Used Form: E. M. Winch

Used Form: Evelyn Winch

Used Form: Gabrielle Margaret Vere Campbell Long

Used Form: Margaret Campbell

MB 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: A woman who earned her living by writing fiction—with occasional essays in that kind of history deplored by historians.

Bowen, Marjorie. The Debate Continues. William Heinemann, 1939.

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Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Literary responses	Mary Wollstonecraft	Virginia Woolf celebrated Wollstonecraft's immortality in 1929; Marjorie Bowen wrote of her critically in 1937 yet entitled her work This Shining Woman. The future anthropologist Ruth Benedict , with her own career yet to...
Publishing	Emmuska Baroness Orczy	This volume carried end-pages of publisher's advertisements for other novels including many by women: Ruby M. Ayres , Inez Bensusan , Marjorie Bowen , Richmal Crompton , Berta Ruck , and O. Douglas (sister of John Buchan). Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness. Blue Eyes and Grey. Hodder and Stoughton, 1928. end pages
Textual Features	Rebecca West	Between March 1915 and August 1917, West wrote reviews for the Daily News, under the editorship of A. G. Gardiner . She often reviewed books on the subject of women; these allowed her to...
Textual Production	Lady Cynthia Asquith	Her ten anthologiesedited during the 1920s (some of them under pseudonyms such as Leonard Gray) had some significance for the writing of that decade, since they incorporated contributions from, for instance, Marghanita Laski ,...
Textual Production	Dorothy L. Sayers	Between 1928 and 1934, DLS edited three volumes under the series title Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror. Her introductions to these collections offered a scholarly history of the genre of detective...
Textual Production	Graham Greene	GG began writing in his teens. He cited as an important formative influence his reading of Marjorie Bowen 's The Viper of Milan. Greene, Graham, and Marjorie Bowen. “Introductory Note”. The Viper of Milan, Bodley Head, 1960, pp. 9-10. 9

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13 February 1692

A war party of the Macdonald clan was ambushed and massacred in the Pass of Glencoe in Argyllshire by a force chiefly composed of Campbells.

Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.

17 August 1847

The duchesse de Praslin was murdered by her husband in their home in Paris. He attempted to conceal his guilt, then took poison and died during his trial.

Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 21st ed., Ward, Lock and Bowden, 1895.

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Carter, Kathryn. “The Cultural Work of Diaries in Mid-Century Victorian Britain”. Victorian Review, Vol.

, No. 2, 1 Dec.–28 Feb. 1997, pp. 251-67.

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Texts

Bowen, Marjorie. Black Magic. Alston Rivers, 1909.

Bowen, Marjorie. Captain Banner. Bodley Head, 1930.

Bowen, Marjorie. Ethics in Modern Art. Watts and Company, 1939.

Bowen, Marjorie. Forget-Me-Not. Heinemann, 1932.

Bowen, Marjorie. General Crack. John Lane, 1928.

Bowen, Marjorie. God’s Playthings. Smith, Elder, 1912.

Bowen, Marjorie, editor. Great Tales of Horror. Bodley Head, 1933.

Greene, Graham, and Marjorie Bowen. “Introductory Note”. The Viper of Milan, Bodley Head, 1960, pp. 9-10.

Bowen, Marjorie. Kecksies and Other Twilight Tales. Arkham House, 1976.

Bowen, Marjorie. The Angel of the Assassination. William Heinemann, 1935.

Bowen, Marjorie. The Bishop of Hell and Other Stories. Bodley Head, 1949.

Bowen, Marjorie. The Debate Continues. William Heinemann, 1939.

Bowen, Marjorie. The Glen o’ Weeping. Alston Rivers, 1907.

Bowen, Marjorie. The Man with the Scales. Hutchinson, 1954.

Bowen, Marjorie. The Viper of Milan. Alston Rivers, 1906.

Bowen, Marjorie. This Shining Woman. Collins, 1937.

Bowen, Marjorie. To Bed at Noon. Heinemann, 1951.

Bowen, Marjorie. William Hogarth. Methuen, 1936.

Bowen, Marjorie. Withering Fires. Collins, 1931.

Bowen, Marjorie. World’s Wonder and Other Essays. Books for Libraries Press, 1969.