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As most of her books are authored as 'Marjorie Bowen' wouldn't that be a better title for this article? Her birth name was Gabrielle Margaret V[ere] Campbell by the way. Which name she used to write the autobiography of Marjorie Bowen...Mrs Long was her married name...which didn't use for any of her books... Colin4C 20:43, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
Just noting that the Library of Congress lists 1888 as Marjorie Bowen's birth year: http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Bowen%20Marjorie&SL=None&Search_Code=GKEY^*&CNT=25
I see that there is a discussion of this discrepancy in the linked biographical article.
"Still in her teens, while at Slade Art School in London, Margaret began her first novel, completed in Paris a year or two later. This tale of sinister swashbuckling adventure was the emotive historical fantasia The Viper of Milan. It was not quickly published, being rejected by eleven publishers because, as Margaret was informed, it was the sort of thing girls should never write. Some of these rejections included assurances that she showed promise, & advocated domestic love stories or children's books as more appropriate to her sex. When her Viper obtained publication in 1906, the publisher intended to pay her nothing while promoting the book (effectively it turned out) as a work of a singular precocity. This is perhaps why, even at so young an age as twenty or twenty-one, she embraced the often reprinted lie that she was born in 1888 rather than 1885, a small fudging of the truth since she was a teenager when the book was written, & her publisher would have her remain so a while longer."
Not sure this merits mention in the article but I'll note it here. Riddell ☎ —Preceding undated comment added 14:21, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
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As most of her books are authored as 'Marjorie Bowen' wouldn't that be a better title for this article? Her birth name was Gabrielle Margaret V[ere] Campbell by the way. Which name she used to write the autobiography of Marjorie Bowen...Mrs Long was her married name...which didn't use for any of her books... Colin4C 20:43, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
Just noting that the Library of Congress lists 1888 as Marjorie Bowen's birth year: http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Bowen%20Marjorie&SL=None&Search_Code=GKEY^*&CNT=25
I see that there is a discussion of this discrepancy in the linked biographical article.
"Still in her teens, while at Slade Art School in London, Margaret began her first novel, completed in Paris a year or two later. This tale of sinister swashbuckling adventure was the emotive historical fantasia The Viper of Milan. It was not quickly published, being rejected by eleven publishers because, as Margaret was informed, it was the sort of thing girls should never write. Some of these rejections included assurances that she showed promise, & advocated domestic love stories or children's books as more appropriate to her sex. When her Viper obtained publication in 1906, the publisher intended to pay her nothing while promoting the book (effectively it turned out) as a work of a singular precocity. This is perhaps why, even at so young an age as twenty or twenty-one, she embraced the often reprinted lie that she was born in 1888 rather than 1885, a small fudging of the truth since she was a teenager when the book was written, & her publisher would have her remain so a while longer."
Not sure this merits mention in the article but I'll note it here. Riddell ☎ —Preceding undated comment added 14:21, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
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