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Lowndes, Marie Belloc

Country/Region:
United Kingdom
Born:
August 5, 1868
Dead:
November 14, 1947
Genres:
Miscellaneous prose, Crime literature, Horror literature, Drama, Children's literature
Franco-English author and journalist, who was noted for her novels with a mixture of horror, crime and the struggle for the liberation of women, with well-crafted psychological elements as well as romantic undertones. Best known is a book that is regarded as a classic, The Lodger (1913), which is based on the case of Jack the Ripper; over the years, this has been reissued and translated many times.

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