Biography
Marie Adelaide Elizabeth Rayner Lowndes (née Belloc; 5 August 1868 – 14 November 1947), who wrote as Marie Belloc Lowndes, was a prolific English novelist, and sister of author Hilaire Belloc.
Active from 1898 until her death, she had a literary reputation for combining exciting incidents with psychological interest. Four of her works were adapted for the screen: The Chink in the Armour (1912; adapted 1922), The Lodger (1913; adapted several times), Letty Lynton (1931; adapted 1932), and The Story of Ivy (1927; adapted 1947). The Lodger was also adapted as a 1940 radio drama and 1960 opera. She published a biography, H.R.H. The Prince of Wales: An Account of His Career, in 1898. From then on novels, reminiscences and plays appeared at the rate of one per year until 1946. She produced over forty novels in all - mainly mysteries, well-plotted and on occasion based on real-life crime, though she herself resented being classed as a crime writer. She created the French detective Hercules Popeau, roughly contemporaneously to Agatha Christie's creation of Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.Her mother died in 1925, fifty-three years after her father. In the memoir, I, too, Have Lived in Arcadia, published in 1942, 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. A second autobiography Where love and friendship dwelt appeared posthumously in 1948.
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.
Filmography
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Movies 9
Writer 9
TV Shows 1
The Lodger (2009)
Der Mieter (1967)
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962)
Man in the Attic (1953)
Ivy (1947)
The Lodger (1944)
The Lodger (1932)
Letty Lynton (1932)
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
Shameful Behavior? (1926)
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GenderFemale
Birthday1868-08-05
Deathday1947-11-14 (79 years old)
Birth PlaceLondon, United Kingdom
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ChildrenCharles Belloc Lowndes, Elizabeth Susan Angela Mary Lowndes, Susan Lowndes Marques
FatherLouis Belloc
MotherBessie Rayner Parkes
SiblingsHilaire Belloc
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom, France
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