Sites related to Marie Belloc Lowndes, the daughter of Bessie Rayner Belloc, and sister of Hilaire Belloc. Her best known work is The Lodger, based on Jack the Ripper; it appeared first as a short story in 1911, and then as a suspense novel in 1913. Like her mother, Belloc Lowndes was active in the struggle for women's suffrage in Britain.