Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868–1947) was a British novelist and playwright. She was born in London, the daughter of French-born lawyer Louis Belloc and English-born novelist Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes. She was educated at home and in France. Lowndes wrote over 30 novels, many of which were adapted for the stage and screen. Her best-known works include The Lodger (1913), which was adapted into a film by Alfred Hitchcock, and The Chink in the Armour (1912). She also wrote several plays, including The Magistrate (1902) and The Schoolmistress (1905). Lowndes was a member of the literary circle known as the "Souls", which included such figures as Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf, and John Maynard Keynes. She was also a close friend of the novelist E. M. Forster. Lowndes died in 1947 in London.
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