The Furies of Marjorie Bowen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Furies of Marjorie Bowen write by John C. Tibbetts. This book was released on 2019-11-22. The Furies of Marjorie Bowen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This first book-length critical examination of the life and work of Marjorie Bowen (1885-1952) reveals a major English writer whose prodigious output included stories of history, romance, and the supernatural. As Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda writes in his Foreword, Bowen may be "the finest British woman writer of the uncanny of the last century," a view that echoes the high regard of cultural historian Edward Wagenknecht, who called her "a literary phenomenon," one whose best work places her alongside such contemporaries as Edith Wharton and Daphne du Maurier. Publicly acclaimed--known only by a series of pseudonyms (including "Marjorie Bowen")--but privately inscrutable, she was and is a mysterious and complex character. Drawing for the first time upon archival resources and the cooperation of the Bowen Estate, this book reveals a woman who saw herself as a rationalist and serious historian, but also as a mystic and "dark enchantress of dread." Above all, through a lifetime of domestic storms and creative ecstasy, Bowen worked tirelessly as both a professional writer and a consummate artist, always seeking, as she once confessed, "to find beauty in dark places."
The Crown Derby Plate
The Crown Derby Plate - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Crown Derby Plate write by Marjorie Bowen. This book was released on 2016-09-19. The Crown Derby Plate available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An antique collector hears of an ancient woman with a large collection of china. Hoping to complete a particular set, the collector pays a visit to the woman's ramshackle house, where she makes a terrifying, ghostly discovery.
The Viper of Milan
The Viper of Milan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Viper of Milan write by Marjorie Bowen. This book was released on 1906. The Viper of Milan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Viper of Milan depicts 14th century Italy as a place of danger and fractious warfare, as disparate groups of nobles fought to achieve and maintain supremacy. A novel steeped in darkness and conflict, we are plunged into the rivalries which rend the province of Lombardy in the early Renaissance. That the reader be immersed, Marjorie Bowen researched the period extensively, noting the rise of the Visconti family who would dominate Milan for decades. Although this novel is not historically accurate, its general depiction of Italian society and nobility of the time - of its priorities, cruelties and caprices - is founded in factual incidents. Marjorie Bowen specialized in historical romances, publishing over a hundred fictional works set in a variety of time periods and locales, together with several biographies of famous figures of yore. Often they contain a romantic element, alongside a gothic or dark aspect; such idiosyncrasy made Bowen a favorite of authors such as Graham Greene. The Viper of Milan, which appeared in 1906, is her earliest published work, the warm reception spurring the young author to further writing.
Marjorie Bowen's Elsie’s Lonely Afternoon
Marjorie Bowen's Elsie’s Lonely Afternoon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Marjorie Bowen's Elsie’s Lonely Afternoon write by Marjorie Bowen. This book was released on 2023-09-12. Marjorie Bowen's Elsie’s Lonely Afternoon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This haunting and unsettling tale delves into the life of little Elsie, a neglected and unwanted orphan, who exists beneath the shadow of her perpetual loneliness. Exploring themes of abandonment, neglect, and the resilience of the human spirit, Elsie’s Lonely Afternoon is a gothic horror tale laced with black humour. Elsie is a young orphan living in a grand house in Hampstead under the care of her bed bound grandmother. Forbidden to speak to the servants, the little girl is quite alone in life. This volume is part of the Mothers of the Macabre series, celebrating the gothic horror masterpieces of pioneering women writers who played a pivotal role in shaping and advancing the genre. First published in 1933, Marjorie Bowen masterfully explores the the stark contrast between a child's innate need for love and care and the harsh reality of her isolated and uncaring environment.
The Bishop of Hell and Other Stories
The Bishop of Hell and Other Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Bishop of Hell and Other Stories write by Marjorie Bowen. This book was released on 2022-09-15. The Bishop of Hell and Other Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Bishop of Hell and Other Stories by Marjorie Bowen is a collection of feminist tales about the hardship of women and haunting and dark supernatural happenings. Excerpt: "SHE who had been Florence Flannery noted with a careless eye the stains of wet on the dusty stairs, and with a glance ill-used to the observance of domesticities looked up for damp or dripping ceilings. The dim-walled staircase revealed nothing but more dust, yet this would serve as a peg for ill-humor to hang on, so Florence pouted."
