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Marjorie Bowen (pseudonym of Mrs Gabrielle Margaret V() Long ''née'' Campbell) (1 November 1885 – 23 December 1952) was a British author who wrote historical romances, supernatural horror stories, popular history and biography.〔Robert Hadji, "Marjorie Bowen" in Jack Sullivan (ed) (1986) ''The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural'': pp. 50–51.〕 ==Life== Bowen was born in 1885 on Hayling Island in Hampshire. She had a difficult childhood; her alcoholic father left the family at an early age and was eventually found dead on a London street. She and her sister grew up in poverty with a less than affectionate mother.〔"Long, Mrs. Gabrielle Margaret Vere (Campbell)", in Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft, Twentieth Century Authors, A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature, (Third Edition). New York, The H.W. Wilson Company, 1950, (pp. 845–6)〕 Bowen studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and later in Paris.〔 Her first novel, the violent historical ''The Viper of Milan'' (written when she was 16) was rejected by several publishers, who considered it inappropriate for a young woman to have written such a novel.〔 It went on to become a best-seller when eventually published.〔 After this, Bowen's prolific writings were the chief financial support for her family. She was married twice: first, from 1912 to 1916, to a Sicilian, Zefferino Emilio Constanza, who died of tuberculosis, and then to Arthur L. Long. Bowen had four children; a son and a daughter (who died in infancy) with Costanza, and two sons with Long.〔 In 1938, Bowen was one of the signatories to a petition organised by the National Peace Council, calling for an international peace conference in an effort to avert war in Europe.〔National Petition for A New Peace Conference,(23 November 1938) National Peace Council. (p. 8).〕 In an interview for ''Twentieth Century Authors'', she listed her hobbies as "painting, needlework and reading".〔 Bowen died on 22 December 1952, after suffering serious concussion as a result of a fall in her bedroom.〔Cambridge University Press http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=bowema〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marjorie Bowen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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