Marie Belloc Lowndes

Studies in Wives (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Descended from prominent thinkers and creatives on both sides of her family, including the French painter Jean-Hilaire Belloc and English philosopher Joseph Priestly, Marie Belloc Lowndes was a prolific biographer and journalist who also had some success with her character-driven fiction. The volume Studies in Wives brings together six keenly observed stories about women exploring what it means to be married.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Floating Press
• Seitenzahl: 201
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781776528004
• Artikelnr.: 39600623

Autorenporträt

Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868 1947) was a prolific English novelist known for blending psychological suspense with thrilling plots. Born in Marylebone, London, she spent her early years in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, France, and was the only daughter of French barrister Louis Belloc and English feminist Bessie Parkes. Her younger brother was the renowned writer Hilaire Belloc. She married Frederick Sawrey A. Lowndes in 1896. Lowndes began her literary career with the biography H.R.H. The Prince of Wales: An Account of His Career (1898) and continued writing novels, memoirs, and plays for nearly five decades, publishing at least one work per year. Her novels were known for their exciting incidents and psychological depth, with two of them adapted for the screen. Among her most famous works were The Lodger (1913) and The Chink in the Armour (1913). In her autobiographies, I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia (1942) and Where Love and Friendship Dwelt (1948), she chronicled her life and her family s history.