Friday, January 2, 1970

Marjorie Bowen

Marjorie Bowen

  • Birth:    November 1, 1885
  • Death:    December 23, 1952
  • Nationality:   English
  • Education:  Slade School of Fine Art
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  • Books Written

    As Marjorie Bowen

    • The Viper of Milan (1906)
    • The Master of Stair (1907), published in the US as The Glen o' Weeping
    • The Sword Decides (1908)
    • A Moment's Madness (1908)
    • The Leopard and the Lily (1909)
    • Black Magic: a Tale of the Rise and Fall of the Antichrist (1909)
    • I Will Maintain (1910, revised 1943)
    • God and the King (1911)
    • Defender of the Faith (1911)
    • God's Playthings (1912)
    • Lover's Knots (1912)
    • The Rake's Progress (1912)
    • The Quest of Glory (1912)
    • The Governor of England (1913)
    • A Knight of Spain (1913)
    • The Two Carnations (1913)
    • Prince and Heretic (1914)
    • Because of These Things (1915)
    • Mr Washington (1915), published in the US as The Soldier from Virginia
    • The Carnival of Florence (1915)
    • Shadows of Yesterday (1916) – short stories
    • William, by Grace of God (1916)
    • Curious Happenings (1917) – short stories
    • The Third Estate (1917); revised edition, Eugenie (1971)
    • Kings-at-Arms (1918)
    • The Burning Glass (1918)
    • Crimes of Old London (1919) – short stories
    • Mr Misfortunate (1919)
    • The Cheats, A Romantic Fantasy (1920)
    • The Pleasant Husband and other stories (1921)
    • Roccoco (1921)
    • The Haunted Vintage (1921)
    • The Jest, from "La Cena delle beffe" by Sem Benelli, rendered into English and put into novel form by Bowen (1922)
    • Affairs of Men, selections from Bowen's novels (1922)
    • Stinging Nettles (1923) – a semi-autobiographical novel relating to Bowen's doomed marriage to Zefferino
    • Seeing Life! and Other Stories (1923)
    • The Presence and the Power: A Story of Three Generations (1924)
    • Five People (1925)
    • "Luctor et Emergo": being an historical essay on the state of England at the Peace of Ryswyck, 1697 – history (1926)
    • Boundless Water (1926)
    • The Seven Deadly Sins: Tales (1926)
    • Mistress Nell Gwyn,[19] published in the UK as Nell Gwyn: A Decoration (1926)
    • The Netherlands Display'd – non-fiction
    • "Five Winds" (1927)
    • The Pagoda (1927)
    • Dark Ann (1927) – short stories
    • Exits and Farewells (1928)
    • The Golden Roof (1928)
    • The Story of the Temple and its Associations (1928)
    • The Countess Fanny (1928)
    • Holland (1928) – a tourist's guide to the Netherlands
    • William, Prince of Orange (Afterwards king of England): being an account of his early life up to his twenty-fourth year (1928)
    • Sundry Great Gentlemen (1928) – biographies
    • The Winged Trees (1928)
    • Sheep's Head and Babylon, and Other Stories of Yesterday and Today (1929) – short stories
    • The Third Mary Stuart, Mary of York, Orange and England (1929)
    • Dickon (1929)
    • The Gorgeous Lovers and other Tales (1929)
    • Mademoiselle Maria Gloria by Bowen, with The Saving of Castle Malcolm by Madeleine Nightingale (1929)
    • The Lady's Prisoner by Bowen, with The Story of Mr. Bell by Geoffrey M. Boumphrey (1929)
    • A Family Comedy (1840) (1930)
    • Exits and Farewells: Being some account of the last days of certain historical characters (1930)
    • The English Paragon (1930)
    • Old Patch's Medley; or, a London miscellany (1930) – short stories
    • The Question (1931)
    • Brave Employments (1931)
    • Withering Fires (1931) – mystery novel
    • Grace Latouche and the Warringtons (1931) – short stories
    • The Shadow on Mockways (1932) – a Grand Guignol melodrama
    • Fond Fancy, and Other Stories (1932)
    • Dark Rosaleen (1932; abridged as Lord Edward in Command, 1937)
    • The Veil'd Delight (1933)
    • Great Tales of Horror (1933) edited by Bowen
    • The Last Bouquet, Some Twilight Tales (1933) – short stories
    • I Dwelt in High Places (1933) – a novel based on the Elizabethan scientist John Dee's involvement with Edward Kelley
    • The Stolen Bride (1933, abridged edition 1946)
    • "Set with Green Herbs" (1933)
    • The Triumphant Beast (1934)
    • The Scandal of Sophie Dawes (1934) – about the low-born courtesan Sophie Dawes, Baronne de Feuchères, described by Bowen as a "vulgar wanton", "a young slut" and a "gutter rat"[20]
    • William III and the Revolution of 1688 (1934)
    • Peter Porcupine: a study of William Cobbett, 1762–1835 (1935)
    • Patriotic Lady. A study of Emma, Lady Hamilton, and the Neapolitan Revolution of 1799 (1935)
    • More Great Tales of Horror (1935) edited by Bowen
    • Mary Queen of Scots:Daughter of Debate (1936)
    • William Hogarth (1936)
    • Trumpets at Rome (1936)
    • Crowns and Sceptres: the Romance and Pageantry of Coronations (1937)
    • Worlds' Wonder and Other Essays (1937)
    • Some Famous Love Letters (1937) edited by Bowen
    • Wrestling Jacob. A study of the life of John Wesley and some members of the family. (1937)
    • Royal Pageantry (1937)
    • God and the Wedding Dress (1938)
    • The Trumpet and the Swan: An Adventure of the Civil War (1938)
    • A Giant in Chains: Prelude to Revolution: France 1775–1791 (1938)
    • Mr. Tyler's Saints (1939)
    • The Circle in the Water (1939)
    • Ethics in Modern Art (1939)
    • Exchange Royal (1940)
    • Strangers to Freedom (1940) illustrated by Gina Dawson
    • Today is Mine: The story of a gamble (1941)
    • Airing in a Closed Carriage (1943) – adapted as the film The Mark of Cain (1947)
    • The Church and Social Progress: An exposition of rationalism and reaction (1945)
    • The Bishop of Hell and Other Stories (1949) – selected supernatural stories from her earlier output; reprinted in 2006 by Wordsworth Editions
    • In the steps of Mary Queen of Scots (1952)
    • The Man with the Scales (1954) – published posthumously
    • Kecksies and Other Twilight Tales (1976) – short stories
      • "Preface"; "The Hidden Ape"; "Kecksies"; "Raw Material"; "The Avenging of Ann Leete"; "The Crown Derby Plate"; "The Sign-Painter and the Crystal Fishes"; "Scoured Silk"; "The Breakdown"; "One Remained Behind"; "The House by the Poppy Field"; "Florence Flannery"; "Half-Past Two"
    • Gustavus Adolphus II (1594–1632): elected King of Sweden, of the Goths and Vandals (1988)
    • Twilight and Other Supernatural Romances (1998) – published by Ash-Tree Press
      • Preface: "Marjorie Bowen 1885–1952: Some Random Recollections by One of Her Sons"; Introduction by Jessica Amanda Salmonson: "The Supernatural Romances of Marjorie Bowen"; "Dark Ann"; "The Last Bouquet"; "Madam Spitfire"; "The Lady Clodagh"; "Decay"; "The Fair Hair of Ambrosine'; "Ann Mellor's Lover"; "Giudetta's Wedding Night"; "Twilight"; "The Burning of the Vanities"; "A Stranger Knocked"; "They Found My Grave"; "Brent's Folly"; "The Confession of Beau Sekforde"; "The Recluse and Springtime"; "Vigil"; "Julia Roseingrave"; Author's Afterword: "A Ghostly Experience: The Presence of Evil"
    • Collected Twilight Stories (2010) – published by Oxford City Press
      • "Scoured Silk"; "The Breakdown"; "One Remained Behind – A Romance a la Mode Gothique"; "The House by the Poppy Field"; "Half-Past Two"; "Elsie's Lonely Afternoon"; "The Extraordinary Adventure of Mr John Proudie"; "Ann Mellor's Lover"; "Florence Flannery"; "Kecksies"; "The Avenging of Ann Leete"; "The Bishop of Hell"; "The Crown Derby Plate"; "The Fair Hair of Ambrosine"; "The Housekeeper"; "Raw Material"; "The Hidden Ape"; "The Sign-Painter and the Crystal Fishes"

As Margaret Campbell or Mrs. Vere Campbell

  • Ferriby (1907) (as Mrs. Vere Campbell)
  • The Debate Continues: being the Autobiography of Marjorie Bowen (1939) (as Margaret Campbell)

As Robert Paye

  • The Devil's Jig (1930)
  • Julia Roseingrave (1933) – supernatural fiction involving witchcraft

As George R. Preedy

  • General Crack (1928)
  • Beltarbet's Pride (short story) (1929)
  • The Rocklitz, published in the US as The Prince's Darling (1930)
  • Bagatelle and some other Diversions – short Stories (1930)
  • Captain Banner: a drama in three acts (1930)
  • Tumult in the North 1930
  • Passion Flower (1932), published in the US as Beneath the Passion Flower (1932)
  • The Pavilion of Honour 1932
  • Violante: Circe and Ermine 1932
  • Double Dallilay, published in the US as Queen's Caprice (1933)
  • Dr. Chaos and the Devil Snar'd (1933)
  • The Knot Garden: Some Old Fancies Re-Set (1933)
  • The Autobiography of Cornelius Blake, 1773–1810, of Ditton See, Cambridgeshire (1934)
  • Laurell'd Captains (1935)
  • The Poisoners (1936)
  • My Tattered Loving (1937, reprinted in 1971 as The King's Favourite by MB)
  • This Shining Woman: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (1937) – a biography of Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Painted Angel (1938)
  • Child of chequer'd fortune: The life, loves and battles of Maurice de Saxe, Marechal de France (1939) – non-fiction
  • Dove in the Mulberry Tree (1939)
  • The Fair Young Widow (1939)
  • The Life of John Knox (1940)
  • Primula' (1940)
  • Man O' War: The Life of Rear Admiral John Paul Jones (1940)
  • Black Man – White Maiden (1941)
  • Findernes' Flowers (1941)
  • The Courtly Charlatan (1942)
  • Lyndley Waters (1942)
  • Lady in a Veil (1943)
  • The Fourth Chamber (1944)
  • Nightcap and Plume (1945)
  • No Way Home (1947)
  • The Sacked City (1949)
  • Julia Ballantyne (1952)

As Joseph Shearing

  • Forget-me-Not (1932) published in the US as Lucile Clery (1930) and The Strange Cast of Lucile Clery (1942)
  • Album Leaf (1933) published in the US as The Spider in the Cup (1934)
  • Moss Rose (1934)
  • The Angel of the Assassination (1935) – non-fiction (biography of Charlotte Corday)
  • The Golden Violet. The story of a lady novelist (1936) reprinted as Night's Dark Secret by Margaret Campbell (1975)
  • The Lady and the Arsenic: The life and death of a romantic: Marie Cappelle, Madam Lafarge (1937) – non-fiction
  • Orange Blossoms (1938) – short stories
  • Blanche Fury (1939)
  • Aunt Beardie (1940)
  • The Crime of Laura Sarelle (1941)
  • The Spectral Bride also known as The Fetch (1942)
  • Airing in a Closed Carriage (1943)
  • The Abode of Love (1944)
  • For Her to See. (1947), published in the US as So Evil My Love (1947) – adapted as the film So Evil My Love (1948)
  • Mignonette (1949)
  • Within the Bubble (1950), published in the US as The Heiress of Frascati (1966)
  • To Bed at Noon (1951)

As John Winch

  • Idler's Gate (1932)
  • Biography
used the pseudonyms Marjorie Bowen, George R. Preedy, Joseph Shearing, Robert Paye, John Winch, and Margaret Campbell or Mrs. Vere Campbell, was a British author who wrote historical romances, supernatural horror stories, popular history and biography.From Wikipedia

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