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Marie Belloc Lowndes

Born

in Marylebone, London, The United Kingdom

August 05, 1868

Died

November 14, 1947

Genre

Mystery & Thrillers

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Marie Adelaide Elizabeth Rayner Lowndes, née Belloc (5 August 1868 – 14 November 1947), was a prolific English novelist.

Active from 1898 until her death, she had a literary reputation for combining exciting incident with psychological interest. Two of her works were adapted for the screen.

Born in Marylebone, London and raised in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, France, Mrs Belloc Lowndes 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 1956). Her paternal grandfather was the French painter Jean-Hilaire Belloc, and her maternal great-great-grandfather was Joseph Priestley. In 1896, she ...more

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Average rating: 3.67 · 5,705 ratings · 818 reviews · 227 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Lodger 3.67 avg rating — 3,650 ratings — published 1913 — 449 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Chianti Flask by Marie Belloc Lowndes, Martin Edwards (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.41 avg rating — 232 ratings — published 1935 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The End of Her Honeymoon 3.51 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 1913 — 115 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Chink in the Armor 3.44 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 1912 — 91 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From Out the Vasty Deep 3.89 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1920 — 80 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Timmy Did 3.98 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1921 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lonely House: A Hercules Popeau Mystery 3.88 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1920 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Story of Ivy 3.52 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1927 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Good Old Anna 3.50 avg rating — 24 ratings — 68 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La dama di compagnia 4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1926 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Absence does make the heart grow fonder—at first, at any rate. Mrs. Bunting was well aware of that. During the long course of hers and Bunting's mild courting, they'd been separated for about three months, and it was that three months which had made up her mind for her. She had got so used to Bunting that she couldn't do without him, and she had felt—oddest fact of all—acutely, miserably jealous.”
― Marie Belloc Lowndes, The Lodger

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“There are certain winter days when bed and bath seem to be the only two tolerable places in the world.”
― Marie Belloc Lowndes, Love and hatred

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“For one thing she [Alice Hayward] possessed that passionate love of abstract justice which has become more a woman's than a man's trait, in our modern civilisation.”
― Marie Belloc Lowndes, The Chianti Flask

tags: justice, men-and-women

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October is horror month. How about some classic horror? Poll will be open through Sunday, September 10. These title are short so the page count of the winner will determine how many live discussions we will have on Slack.

The Witch of Ravensworth

George Brewer

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The Necromancers

Robert Hugh Benson

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The Lodger

Marie Belloc Lowndes

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The House on the Borderland

William Hope Hodgson

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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

James Hogg

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