Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes

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Marie Adelaide Elizabeth Rayner Lowndes , née Belloc (born August 5, 1868 in Marylebone , London , United Kingdom , † November 14, 1947 in Eversley Cross , Hampshire , United Kingdom) was an English novelist and screenwriter.

Belloc Lowndes wrote books every year from 1898 until her death, in which she combined exciting incidents with psychological topics. Her novel The Lodger from 1913 has been filmed several times and adapted as an opera and radio play. Her novels Letty Lynton (1931) and The Story of Ivy (1927) were also made into films.

biography

Belloc was born in Marylebone , London and grew up in La Celle-Saint-Cloud , France. She was the only daughter of the French barrister Louis Belloc (1868-1940) and the English feminist Elisabeth "Bessie" Rayner Parkes (1829-1925). Belloc's paternal grandfather was the French painter Jean-Hilaire Belloc . Her maternal great-grandfather was the theologian and philosopher Joseph Priestley . After the death of their father, the family returned to England. However, Belloc stayed often in France.

Her younger brother Hilaire Belloc was also a writer. To him she dedicated her last work, The Young Hilaire Belloc , which was published posthumously in 1956 .

On January 9, 1896, she married The Times journalist Frederick Sawrey A. Lowndes (1868-1940). They had three children, two daughters and a son, Elizabeth, Charles and Susan.

Career

She published a biography in 1898, HRH The Prince of Wales: An Account of His Career . Novels, memoirs and plays followed; one a year until 1946. She produced over forty novels - mostly mystery , well-thought-out, and occasionally related to actual events, though resented being called a crime writer.

Her mother Bessie Parkes died in 1925. In the memoir I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia (published 1924), Marie Belloc Lowndes told the life story of her mother. For this she used old family letters and memories from her childhood in France. A second autobiography Where love and friendship dwelt appeared posthumously in 1948.

Ernest Hemingway praised her knowledge of feminine psychology, which became particularly evident when simple minds could not cope with the effects of the extraordinary.

death

Belloc died on November 14, 1947 at the home of her elder daughter Elizabeth Countess Iddesleigh (wife of the third Earl of Iddesleigh ) in Eversley Cross, Hampshire. She was buried in France in La Celle-Saint-Cloud near Versailles . Belloc had spent her youth there.

Adaptations

Movie

Belloc's most successful novel, The Lodger , based on the Jack-the-Ripper murders of 1888, has been filmed several times :

Further films:

Opera

radio

  • Alfred Hitchcock was also involved in the radio adaptation of her 1913 novel The Lodger . At the CBS , the novel served as the basis for the first episode of the radio drama series Suspense in 1940 .

Works

Novels

  • HRH The Prince of Wales: an account of his career. New York / London (1898 as Anon, rev. 1901 as His Most Gracious Majesty King Edward VII. )
  • The philosophy of the Marquise. (1899)
  • TRH The Prince and Princess of Wales. (1902, as Anon.)
  • The Heart of Penelope. (1904, New York 1915)
  • Barbara Rebel. (1905, New York 1907)
  • The Pulse of Life: a story of a passing world. (1908, New York 1909)
  • Studies in Wives. (1909, New York 1910)
  • The Uttermost Farthing. (1908, New York 1910)
  • According to Meredith. (1909)
  • Studies in Wives. Short stories. (1909)
  • When No Man Pursueth: an everyday story. (1910, New York 1911)
  • Jane Oglander. (1911, New York 1911)
  • Mary Pechell. (1912, New York 1912)
  • The Chink in the Armor. (1912, New York 1912, London 1935 as The house of peril. )
  • The End of Her Honeymoon (New York 1913, London 1914)
  • Studies in Love and Terror. (1913, New York 1913)
  • The lodger. (1913, New York 1913) filmed in 1927 by Alfred Hitchcock with Ivor Novello .
  • Noted Murder Mysteries. (1914 as 'Philip Curtin')
  • Told in Gallant Deeds: A Child's History of the War. (1914)
  • Good old Anna. (1915, New York 1916)
  • Price of Admiralty. (1915)
  • The Red Cross Barge. (1916, New York 1918)
  • Lilla: A Part of Her Life. (1916, New York 1917)
  • Love and hatred. (1917, New York 1917)
  • Out of the war. (1918, 1934 as The gentleman anonymous )
  • The Lonely House. (1920, New York 1920)
  • From the vast deep. (1920, New York 1921 as From out the vasty deep )
  • What Timmy Did. (1921, New York 1922)
  • Why They Married. (1922)
  • The Philanderer. (1923)
  • The Terriford Mystery. (1924, Garden City NY 1924)
  • Some men and women. (1925, Garden City NY 1928)
  • Afterwards. (1925)
  • Bread of Deceit. (1925, Garden City NY 1928 as Afterwards. )
  • What Really Happened. (1926, Garden City NY 1926, London 1932 as an actor)
  • Thou Shalt Not Kill. (1927)
  • The Story of Ivy. (1927, Garden City NY 1928)
  • Cressida: no mystery. (1928, New York 1930)
  • Duchess Laura: certain days of her life. (1929, New York 1933 as The duchess Intervenes. )
  • One of Those Ways. (1929)
  • Love's Revenge. (1929)
  • The Key: A Love Drama in Three Acts. (1930)
  • With All John's Love: A Play in Three Acts. (1930)
  • Letty Lynton. (1931, New York 1931) filmed in 1932 by MGM with Joan Crawford .
  • Vanderlyn's Adventure (New York 1931, London 1937 as The house by the sea. )
  • Why Be Lonely? A Comedy in Three Acts. (1931 with FSA Lowndes)
  • Jenny Newstead. (1932 New York 1932)
  • Love is a flame. (1932)
  • The Reason Why. (1932)
  • Dutchess Laura: further days of her life. (New York 1933)
  • Another Man's Wife. (1934, New York 1934)
  • The Chianti Flask. (New York 1934, London 1935)
  • Who Rides on a Tiger. (New York 1935, London 1936)
  • The second key. (New York 1936, London 1939 as The injured lover. )
  • And Call it Accident (New York 1936, London 1939 as And call it an accident. )
  • The House by the Sea. (1937)
  • The Marriage Broker. (1937, New York 1937 as The fortune of Bridget Malone. )
  • Motifs. (1938)
  • Empress Eugenie: a three-act play. (New York 1938)
  • Motifs. (1938, New York 1938 as Why it happened. )
  • Reckless Angel. (New York 1939)
  • Lizzie Borden: A Study in Conjecture. (New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1939, London 1940)
  • The Christine Diamond. (New York & London 1940)
  • Before the storm. (New York 1941)
  • I, too, have lived in Arcadia: a record of Love and Childhood. (1941, New York 1942)
  • What of the Night? (New York 1943)
  • Where Love and Friendship Dwelt. (1943, New York 1943)
  • The Labor of Hercules. (1943)
  • The Merry Wives of Westminster. (1946)
  • A passing world. (1948)
  • She Dwelt with Beauty. (posthumously, 1949)
  • The Young Hilaire Belloc. (New York 1956)

items

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Marie Belloc Lowndes: About the Author . In: The Lodger - 100 Year Anniversary Edition . Lulu.com, 2014, ISBN 978-1-291-81222-0 , pp. 368 ( books.google.de ).
  2. ↑ a b Ian Ousby (Ed.): Cambridge paperback guide to literature in English . Cambridge University Press, New York 1995, pp. 575 .
  3. ↑ Mr. FSA Lowndes: Valuable service to "The Times" . In: The Times . No. 48574 , March 27, 1940, p. 10 , F series (English, Wikisource ).
  4. ↑ a b Fiona Kelleghan: 100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction . Salem Press, Pasadena, Ca. 2001, ISBN 1-58765-187-4 , pp. 415 .
  5. ^ Henry Stafford Northcote, 3rd Earl of Iddesleigh. In: thepeerage.com. Retrieved January 8, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Lowndes, Marie Adelaide Belloc
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lowndes, Marie Adelaide Elizabeth Rayner (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Marylebone , London, United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1947
Place of death Eversley Cross , Hampshire , United Kingdom