Marie Belloc Lowndes 
Studies in Wives 

Descended from prominent thinkers and creatives on both sides of her family, including the French painter Jean-Hilaire Belloc and English philosopher Joseph Priestly, Marie Belloc Lowndes was a prolific biographer and journalist who also had some success with her character-driven fiction. The volume Studies in Wives brings together six keenly observed stories about women exploring what it means to be married.