Marie Corelli

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Standard Name: Corelli, Marie
Birth Name: Mary Mackay
Nickname: Minnie
Pseudonym: Marie Corelli
MC was one of the first authors of the modern best seller. She published thirty-one popular novels, including one, published posthumously, which fictionalizes events from her own life. She also wrote short stories (collected in four volumes). She wrote poetry as a child and published a collection of poems posthumously. Her novels have been seen as blending the conventions of the romance, gothic, historical, and society novels. At the turn of the century, sales of each of her novels were in the range of 175,000 copies; at the end of world war one her fame and sales fell drastically. She was the first woman to lecture before the Royal Society of Literature : The Signs of the Times was presented on 20 February 1902.

Connections

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Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Taylor
ET 's protagonist, a monster of egotism, mentions Rhoda Broughton and Corelli in connection with her own work, but only to suggest that hers is worth yet greater sums of money than theirs.
Taylor, Elizabeth, and Paul Bailey. Angel. Virago.
76
She...
Leisure and Society Eliza Lynn Linton
She enjoyed going to and hosting prominent literary and social receptions. Her guests included a wide range of people: popular writers such as Rudyard Kipling , Marie Corelli , and Frank Harris ; luminaries of...
Literary responses Ouida
Ouida was hailed as a woman of genius. Not Talent, merely, but Genius in a Belgravia article by Marie Corelli .
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Gale Research.
43: 355
Literary responses Ouida
The Athenæum criticized this novel for mock eloquence
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2016 (16 June 1866): 797
and thought anyone choosing to read it was making a very bad use of their freedom.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2016 (16 June 1866): 798
In...
Literary responses Florence Dixie
FD received many letters of appreciation from individual readers: from a sailor on a British warship and a soldier with the army in South Africa, as well as from Ouida and Marie Corelli , to...
Literary responses Barbara Pym
This became BP 's most widely-reviewed text, and received a mixed reception. Robert Liddell was again outraged, calling this a dreadful book which had only been made possible by the betrayal of Pym's friends in...
Literary responses Daphne Du Maurier
Rebecca was DDM 's best known work, earning her massive profits, and it has become one of the most widely read novels of all time.
Kelly, Richard. Daphne du Maurier. Twayne.
66
The Times Literary Supplement reviewer wrote: In its kind...
Literary responses Sheila Kaye-Smith
Critic Rachel Anderson considers that the religous or quasi-religious element in SKS 's characters—their larger-than-life passions and obsessions, their quests and self-lacerations and rebirths—link her work with that of such romance-writers as Florence Barclay ,...
Occupation Annie S. Swan
As president of this society ASS tried to get Marie Corelli to a meeting, but in vain: Corelli was invincibly prejudiced against journalists, feeling mistreated by them. Swan, on the contrary, admired the women journalists'...
politics Queen Victoria
In her Passing of the Great Queen, Marie Corelli , like Sarah Stickney Ellis, linked QV 's femininity to that of the women of Britain, but Corelli transforms her praise of Victoria's womanly virtue...
Publishing Flora Annie Steel
In her extraordinarily productive year of 1897, FAS contributed to the Lady's Realm an untitled essay in a debate begun by Marie Corelli over the value of passionate love, in what was at the time...
Publishing Jessie Fothergill
The copyright of the novel initially sold for £40 on 26 March 1877. Two months later, Richard Bentley and Son recognized its commercial possibilities and drew up a new contract, increasing the price to £200...
Textual Features Julia Pardoe
Indebted to the tradition of Goethe 's Faust, the story may have influenced Marie Corelli 's Sorrows of Satan (1895).
Textual Production Oscar Wilde
Wilde shifted the magazine's focus from fashion and transformed it into an organ for women's opinions and feelings on the subjects of modern life, art, and literature, as well as style. He was also dedicated...
Textual Production Hélène Barcynska
She says she was ambitious from an early age, wanting to earn her own fast cars and other luxuries,
Barcynska, Hélène. Full and Frank: The Private Life of a Woman Novelist. Hurst and Blackett.
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and wanting also to Make a Name.
Barcynska, Hélène. Full and Frank: The Private Life of a Woman Novelist. Hurst and Blackett.
27
Because her mother told her almost no...

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Texts

Corelli, Marie. Ziska. Arrowsmith; Simpkin,, Marshall, 1897.
Corelli, Marie. Ziska. Methuen, 1960.