Marian Fowler (née Little; October 15, 1929 – June 12, 2020) was a Canadian literary scholar and biographer who was best known for writing women's biographies.
Fowler was born in Newmarket, Ontario, to Dorothy and Robert Little on October 15, 1929.
[1] Fowler returned to the University of Toronto where she earned an MA (1965) and a PhD (1970) which dealt with Jane Austen's novels.
[3] In a Gilded Cage: From Heiress to Duchess, a group biography, was nominated for the 1993 Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction.
In a Gilded Cage explores the lives of five American heiresses who married British artistocrats, specifically Consuelo Vanderbilt, Lily Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, Consuelo Montagu, Duchess of Manchester, Helena Keith-Falconer, Countess of Kintore, and May Goelet.