Marjorie Bowen

Marjorie Bowen
BornMargaret Gabrielle Vere Campbell
(1885-11-01)1 November 1885
Hayling Island, Hampshire, England
Died23 December 1952(1952-12-23) (aged 67)
Kensington, London, England
Pen nameMarjorie Bowen; Joseph Shearing; George Preedy; Robert Paye; John Winch
OccupationWriter
GenreRomance
Spouse
Zefferino Emilio Constanza
(m. 1912; died 1916)
Arthur L. Long
(m. 1917)
Children4

Margaret Gabrielle Vere Long (née Campbell; 1 November 1885 – 23 December 1952), who used the pseudonyms Marjorie Bowen, George R. Preedy, Joseph Shearing, Robert Paye, John Winch, and Margaret Campbell or Mrs. Vere Campbell,[1] was a British author who wrote historical romances and supernatural horror stories, as well as works of popular history and biography.[2]

  1. ^ Jessica Amanda Salmonson (ed) (1998) Twilight and other Supernatural Romances: Introduction, quoting Hilary Long, son of Marjorie Bowen.
  2. ^ Robert Hadji, "Marjorie Bowen" in Jack Sullivan (ed.) (1986), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 50–51.