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Marie Belloc Lowndes

English novelist (–)

Marie Belloc Lowndes

Born

Marie Adelaide Elizabeth Raynor Belloc


5 August

Marylebone, London, England

Died14 November () (aged&#;79)

Eversley Cross, Hampshire, England

OccupationWriter

Marie Adelaide Elizabeth Rayner Lowndes (née Belloc; 5 August – 14 November ), who wrote as Marie Belloc Lowndes, was a prolific English novelist, and sister of author Hilaire Belloc.

Active from until her death, she had a reputation for combining exciting incidents with psychological interest in her books. Four of her works were adapted for the screen: The Chink in the Armour (; adapted ), The Lodger (; adapted several times), Letty Lynton (; adapted ), and The Story of Ivy (; adapted ).

The Lodger was also adapted as a radio drama and opera.

Personal life

Born in George Street, Marylebone, London and raised in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, France, Belloc was the only daughter of French barrister Louis Belloc and English feminist Bessie Parkes. Her younger brother was Hilaire Belloc, whom she wrote of in her last work, The Young Hilaire Belloc (published posthumously in ).

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Belloc's paternal grandfather was the French painter Jean-Hilaire Belloc, and her maternal great-great-grandfather was the theologian/philosopher Joseph Priestley. Her mother died in , 53 years after her father.

In , Belloc married Frederick Sawrey A. Lowndes (–), a journalist.[1] They had one son and two daughters, the elder of whom married the Earl of Iddesleigh.[2]

Career

She published a biography, H.R.H.

The Prince of Wales: An Account of His Career, in From then on novels, reminiscences and plays appeared at the rate of one per year until She produced over forty novels in all - mainly mysteries, well-plotted and on occasion based on real-life crime,[3] though she herself resented being classed as a crime writer.[4] She created the French detective Hercules Popeau, roughly contemporaneously to Agatha Christie's creation of Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.[5][6] Popeau appeared in two novels and a series of short stories.

Her mother died in , fifty-three years after her father. In the memoir, I, too, Have Lived in Arcadia, published in , she told the story of her mother's life, compiled largely from old family letters and her own memories of her early life in France.

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A second autobiography Where love and friendship dwelt appeared posthumously in

Ernest Hemingway praised her insight into female psychology, revealed above all in the situation of the ordinary mind failing to cope with the impact of the extraordinary.[7]

Death

Belloc died 14 November at the home of her elder daughter, the Countess Iddesleigh (wife of the third Earl) in Eversley Cross, Hampshire, and was interred in France, in La Celle-Saint-Cloud near Versailles, where she had spent her youth.[citation needed]

Adaptations

Film

Opera

The Lodger (opera) is a opera by Phyllis Tate, based on the novel

Radio

  • Hitchcock was also associated with a radio adaptation for CBS in that served as the first episode of a radio drama series, Suspense.
  • A further radio version was produced by the BBC in

Bibliography

Non-fiction books

  • H.R.H.

    The Prince of Wales: an account of his career. New York & London ( as Anon, rev. as His Most Gracious Majesty King Edward VII)

  • The Philosophy of the Marquise ()
  • Bohemia and Bourgeoisia ()
  • The Life of Queen Alexandra ()
  • T.R.H. The Prince and Princess of Wales (, as Anon.)
  • Noted Murder Mysteries (, as by 'Philip Curtin': , as by Mrs Belloc Lowndes)
  • Told in Gallant Deeds: A Child's History of the War ()
  • ’’Real Stories of Crime & Mystery’’ (, as by 'Philip Curtin')
  • I, too, have lived in Arcadia: a record of Love and Childhood (, New York ) Autobiography.
  • Where Love and Friendship Dwelt () Autobiography.
  • The Merry Wives of Westminster () Autobiography.
  • A Passing World () Autobiography.

Fiction

  • The Heart of Penelope (, New York )
  • Barbara Rebell (, New York )
  • The Pulse of Life: a Story of a Passing World (, New York )
  • The Uttermost Farthing (, New York )
  • According to Meredith ()
  • Studies in Wives ( New York, ) Short stories
  • When No Man Pursueth: An Everyday Story (, New York )
  • Jane Oglander (, New York )
  • The Chink in the Armour (, New York , London as The House of Peril).

    First published as a newspaper serial, The Daily Telegraph & Courier, August

  • Mary Pechell (, New York )
  • The End of Her Honeymoon (New York , London )
  • Studies in Love and Terror (, New York ).

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    Short stories

  • The Lodger (, New York ) made into a film by Alfred Hitchcock with Ivor Novello in
  • Good Old Anna (, New York )
  • Price of Admiralty ()
  • The Red Cross Barge (, New York )
  • Lilla: A Part of Her Life (, New York )
  • Love and hatred (, New York )
  • Out of the War (, as The gentleman anonymous)
  • The Lonely House (, New York ) (featuring Hercules Popeau)
  • From the Vast Deep (, New York as From out the vasty deep)
  • What Timmy Did (, New York )
  • Why They Married ()
  • The Philanderer ()
  • The Terriford Mystery (, Garden City NY )
  • Some Men and Women (, Garden City NY )
  • Afterwards ()
  • Bread of Deceit (, Garden City NY as Afterwards)
  • What Really Happened (, Garden City NY , London as a play) made into episode 16 of season 1 of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour in [8]
  • Thou Shalt Not Kill ()
  • The Story of Ivy (, Garden City NY )
  • Cressida: no mystery (, New York )
  • Duchess Laura: certain days of her life (, New York as The duchess Intervenes)
  • One of Those Ways () (a Hercules Popeau mystery)
  • Love's Revenge ()
  • The Key: A Love Drama in Three Acts ()
  • With All John's Love: A Play in Three Acts ()
  • Letty Lynton (, New York ) made into a film by MGM with Joan Crawford in
  • Vanderlyn's Adventure (New York , London as The house by the sea)
  • Why Be Lonely?

    A Comedy in Three Acts", ( with F. S. A. Lowndes)

  • Jenny Newstead (London , New York ). First published as a newspaper serial, Sunday Post, August , as ‘’The Strange Case of Jenny Newstead’’.
  • Love is a Flame ()
  • The Reason Why ()
  • Dutchess Laura: further days of her life (New York )
  • Another Man's Wife (, New York )
  • The Chianti Flask (New York , London )
  • Who Rides on a Tiger (New York , London )
  • The Second Key (New York , London as The injured lover)
  • And Call it Accident (New York , London as And call it an accident)
  • The House by the Sea ()
  • The Marriage Broker (, New York as The fortune of Bridget Malone)
  • Motive ()
  • Empress Eugenie: a three-act play (New York )
  • Motive (, New York as Why it happened)
  • Reckless Angel (New York )
  • Lizzie Borden: A Study in Conjecture (New York: Longmans, Green and Co., , London )
  • The Christine Diamond (New York & London )
  • Before the Storm (New York )
  • What of the Night? (New York )
  • The Labours of Hercules ()
  • She Dwelt with Beauty (published posthumously, )
  • The Young Hilaire Belloc (New York )

See also

References

External links