Arthur Severn

Standard Name: Severn, Arthur

Connections

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Family and Intimate relationships Marie Corelli
In 1906-7, at the age of fifty-one, MC developed an unrequited love for the artist Arthur Severn . For more than ten years she wrote to him daily. The two started off as friends, with...
Publishing Marie Corelli
MC published The Devil's Motor, a novel with illustrations supplied by artist Arthur Severn , whom she thought of as a second Turner.
Kowalczyk, Richard L. “Marie Corelli and Arthur Severn’s Reputation as an Artist”. Modern Philology, Vol.
66
, pp. 322-7.
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
456 (6 October 1910): 367
Textual Production Marie Corelli
Open Confession, To a Man from a Woman, MC 's fictionalized account of her love for the sculptor Arthur Severn , was published later in the year of her death.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

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Texts

Corelli, Marie, and Arthur Severn. The Devil’s Motor. Hodder and Stoughton, 1910.