Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes

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Marie Adelaide Lowndes née Belloc (1868 - 1947). Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, was an English novelist, born in Marylebone, London, the only daughter of French barrister Louis Belloc and Bessie Parkes, and sister of Hilaire Belloc. Her maternal great grandfather was Joseph Priestley. In 1896 she married Frederic Sawrey Lowndes. She died November 14, 1947 at the home of her elder daughter, Countess Iddesleigh, in Eversley Cross, Hampshire. She was interred in France, in La Celle-Saint-Cloud near Paris & Versailles, where she spent her youth. In the novel, I, too, Have Lived in Arcadia, published in 1942, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes told the story of her mother's life, compiled largely from old family letters, and of her own early life in France.

She established her reputation as a teller of stories combining exciting incident with psychological interest. Her first novel The Heart of Penelope was published in 1904. From then on novels, reminiscences and plays came from her quill at the rate of one per year until 1946.

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The Heart of Penelope (1904)
Barbara Rebell (1905)
The Pulse of Life (1906)
Studies in Wives (1907)
The Uttermost Farthing (1908)
According to Meredith (1909)
Studies in Wives. Short Stories (1909)
When No Man Pursueth (1910)
Jane Oglander (1911)
Mary Pechell (1912)
The Chink in the Armour (1912)
The End of Her Honeymoon (1914)
The Lodger (1913), which was made into a movie by Alfred Hitchcock in 1927, by Maurice Elvey in 1932, John Brahm in 1944, and as Man in the Attic in 1953.
Good old Anna (1915)
The Red Cross Barge (1916)
Lilla: a part of her life (1917)
Out of the War (1918)
The Lonely House (1919)
From Out of the Vast Deep (1920)
What Timmy Did (1921)
Why They Married (1922)
The Philanderer (1923)
The Terriford Mystery (1924)
Some Men and Women (1925)
Afterwards (1925)
Bread of Deceit (1925)
What Really Happened (1926)
Thou Shalt Not Kill (1927)
The Story of Ivy (1927)
Cressida: no mystery (1928)
One of Those Ways (1929)
Love's Revenge (1929)
Key, a love drama in three acts (1930)
Letty Lynton (1931) made into a film by MGM with Joan Crawford in 1932.
Vanderlyn's Adventure (1931)
Love is a Flame (1932)
Jenny Newstead (1932)
The Reason Why (1932)
Dutchess Laura (1933)
Another Man's Wife (1934)
The Chianti Flask (1934)
Who Rides on a Tiger (1935)
The Second Key (1936)
And Call it Accident (1936)
The House by the Sea (1937)
The Marriage Broker (1937)
The Fortune of Bridget Malone (1937)
Motive (1938)
Empress Eugenie; a three-act play (1938)
The Injured Lover (1939)
Reckless Angel (1939)
Lizzie Borden: A Study in Conjecture (1939)
The Christine Diamond (1940)
Before the Storm (1941)
I too, have lived in Arcadia (a record of Love and Childhood) (1941)
What of the Night? (1942)
Where Love and Friendship Dwelt (1943)
The Labours of Hercules (1943)
The Merry Wives of Westminster (1946)
She Dwelt with Beauty, published posthumously (1949)