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 | Frances Hodgson Burnett | FHB
was a focus of media attention—occasionally hostile but often flattering—throughout her career. The title of Marie A. Belloc
's interview Mrs. Hodgson Burnett. A Famous Authoress at Home (in the Idler, 9, 1896)... |
Literary responses | Julia Frankau | |
Literary responses | Gertrude Stein | GS
's writing has been ruffling critics since Laura Riding
wrote in 1927 of her literalism, simple-mindedness, and successful barbarism. Hoffmann, Michael J. “Gertrude Stein in the Psychology Laboratory”. American Quarterly, Vol. 17 , No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 1965, pp. 127-32. 130 |
Literary responses | Beatrice Harraden | Marie Belloc Lowndes
described this book for the Times Literary Supplement as a strangely poignant drama and likened it to Mary Shelley
's Frankenstein and Sir Walter Scott
's Waverley for its comparable ability to... |
Literary responses | Margaret Oliphant | The work has been consistently admired. On its appearance the editor of The Spectator praised it for wonderful mastery of the borderland of the natural and the supernatural, qtd. in Greenfield, John R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 159. Gale Research, 1996. 159: 256 |
Literary responses | Julia Frankau | Marie Belloc Lowndes
later wrote that Baccarat was thirty years ahead of its time, and had it been signed by Guy de Maupassant
it would have become and remained famous. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. The Merry Wives of Westminster. Macmillan, 1946. 57 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Charles | Although she made little money, EC
made a name for herself with the Chronicles. The novel went through several editions, as well as being translated into many European languages, Arabic, and numerous Indian dialects... |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
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