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Book Synopsis 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
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Elevating her from obscurity, Tibbetts' comprehensive study of Marjorie Bowen's life and novels results in a definitive guide for any reader with an interest in understanding Bowen and her place amongst contemporary 20th century Gothic horror and weird fiction writers."—Michele Brittany, author of Horror in Space: Critical Essays on a Film Subgenre
