The Moving Finger Writes

Marie Adelaide Elizabeth Rayner Lowndes, known professionally as Marie Belloc Lowndes, was a prolific British novelist active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born on August 5, 1868, into a world of literary pedigree—her mother being the well-respected Bessie Rayner Parkes and her brother Hilaire Belloc a noted writer—Lowndes was naturally inclined toward the literary arts. Her career sp...