PM
was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
. The domestic world of her novels, wrote P. J. Keating
in the Penguin Companion to Literature, hovers continually on the edge of nightmare.
Crosland, Margaret. Beyond the Lighthouse. Constable.
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Publishing
Marie Corelli
This novel was released as a single volume costing six shillings, instead of the more traditional and expensive three-volume format.
Mayer, Howard A. “Sorrows of Satan, The (Corelli)”. The 1890s: An Encyclopedia of British Literature, Art, and Culture, edited by George A. Cevasco, Garland Publishing, pp. 573-5.
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Its full title was The Sorrows of Satan; or, The Strange Experience of One...
Literary responses
Harriet Martineau
P. J. Keating
discusses this tale in The Working Classes in Victorian Fiction, 1971.
Keating, Peter John. The Working Classes in Victorian Fiction. Routledge and Kegan Paul.
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Texts
Keating, Peter John. “A Pen under Pressure”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3770, p. 616.