The Debate Continues

Book excerpt: The Debate Continues is famed British writer Marjorie Bowen's autobiography. She writes with passion and fervor about her hardworking and tragic life. Margaret Gabrielle Vere Long, who used the pseudonyms Marjorie Bowen and Joseph Shearing, was a British author who wrote historical romances, supernatural horror stories, popular history, and biography. Excerpt: "I was born in Hayling Island in the cottage of an old woman named Mrs. Cole, of whom I know nothing save that she made a quantity of sloe gin and hoarded it, leaving it to be drunk on the day of her funeral."