A Passing World

Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868-1947) was a prolific British novelist and a deft chronicler of domestic and psychological tensions within early 20th-century society. Daughter of French barrister Louis Belloc and English feminist Bessie Rayner Parkes, Lowndes grew up in a milieu that inherently valued literature and intellectual discourse. Her literary foray commenced with journalism and essay writing b...