Marie Corelli: The Writer and the Woman

Miss Corelli commenced “The Master Christian” at Brighton on All Saints’ Day, 1897, in the hope that she would get through it before the terrible illness she had been suffering...

In no work produced by her busy pen has Miss Corelli given such range to her imagination, to her love of the beautiful and fantastic, as in “Ardath.” This, her fourth book, abou...

The publication of “The Sorrows of Satan,” in 1895, caused a greater sensation than had followed the appearance of any other work by Miss Corelli. Many presumably competent judg...

Some day a selection of extracts from “The Works of Marie Corelli” will be published, and excellent reading it will prove. For, scattered about the novelist’s goodly list of boo...

A review of Marie Corelli’s life from the time she left her convent-school to the present day, shapes as a record of intellectual activity rather than one of movement or inciden...

In explanation of an unannounced and unexpected afternoon visit in 1890, Mr. W. E. Gladstone said: “I came because I was curious to see for myself the personality of a young wom...

It is pretty generally known that when Sir Theodore Martin desired, in honor of Lady Martin’s memory, to place a Helen Faucit memorial in the chancel of Trinity Church, Stratfor...

Miss Marie Corelli’s career as a public speaker has been a short one, but, so far as it has gone, full of promise. She has a good enunciation and a sweet, penetrating voice; she...

When Solomon was at the zenith of his glory the number of people who could read must have been extremely limited, and yet that monarch--whose methods of administering justice ma...

This, Marie Corelli’s latest work, appeared on August 28th, 1902, the first edition totalling up to the unprecedented number of 120,000 copies. We understand that, since the pri...

In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred an author’s first long manuscript is a poor and immature thing, which, owing to its inflammatory nature, were best devoted to fire-lighting...

In the former of these works Marie Corelli has much to say about men that is very disagreeable and, as it appears to us, only partially true. It would seem that the novelist is...

To Miss Corelli’s host of admirers the story of “Vendetta” must be so familiar as to render a lengthy repetition of it unnecessary. “Vendetta” is, briefly, an exposition--in the...

Marie Corelli never writes without a purpose--never solely to excite or entertain the reader who regards books as pleasant things provided for his regalement just as ices, panto...

Marie Corelli seems to think that the present generation is one in which hypocrisy cumbers the face of the globe. “Never,” she says, “was the earth so oppressed with the weight...

“Why should women’s writings be in any respect inferior to that of men if they are only willing to follow out _the same method of self-education_?” asked Charles Kingsley. This...

“Keep a brave heart. You are steadily rising. People recognize that you are an artist working with love, not a machine producing novels against bank-notes, with no interest in i...

The “Local Color” in Marie Corelli’s Books--“I _Imagine_ it must be so, and I find it generally _is_ so”--Why the Novelist went to live at Stratford--“Hall’s Croft,” “Avon Croft...

As a Book--How the Critics Missed the Allegorical Idea of the Story--The Opinion of Father Ignatius: “Tens of Thousands will Bless the Author”--A Plea for more Womanliness among...

Pauline de Charmilles: a Character Sketch--Her Engagement to Beauvais and the Arrival of Silvion Guidèl--“First Impressions”--Pauline’s Confession and Beauvais’ First Bout of Ab...

The Thorny Path of the Literary Pilgrim--Old Publishers and New--Mr. George Bentley an Honorable Example of the Former Type--The Happy Relations that existed between Miss Corell...

The Novelist’s First Public Speech: an Appeal for a Warwickshire Church--An Address Delivered to Stratford Working-men on “The Secret of Happiness”--Hard Work the Best Tonic in...

An Unprecedented Sale--A Note on its Title--Reviewed by Three Hundred and Fifty Journals, although not sent out to the Press--Criticisms from _Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper_ and the...

Mr. Bentley’s Opinion of “Vendetta”--Practically a True Story of Naples during the Cholera Epidemic of 1884--The Remarkable Ingenuity of its Construction--The Novelist’s Habit o...

The Helen Faucit Memorial--Marie Corelli’s Successful Campaign in Behalf of Shakespeare’s Burial Place--Portraits of the Novelist--Marie Corelli Declines to Review “The Eternal...

Modern Husbands--The Money Marriage--The Average Man and his Attitude in this Respect--Delicia Vaughan, Novelist and Beauty--Her foolish Infatuation for Lord Carlyon and Consequ...

Novels with a Purpose--The Criminally Mistaken Up-bringing of Children--Lionel Valliscourt an Eleven-year-old Atheist--The Cramming Process and its Effect on him--His Breakdown...

How it was Commenced and Interrupted--The Novelist’s Severe Illness--Death of George Eric Mackay--The Literary Dinner and the Critic--Sir Francis Burnand Describes “Boy” as “a W...

A Bentley Letter--The Effect of a Publisher’s Advice on a Writer’s Career--The Success of “A Romance of Two Worlds” without help from the Press--The Unfairness of appointing Nov...

Its Theme--Congratulations from Lord Tennyson--A suggested Corelli City in Colorado--An Example of the Novelist’s Descriptive Powers--Theos Alwyn, Agnostic--His Interview with H...

The Abbé Vergniaud’s Sermon and the Attempt on his Life--He Confesses that his Assailant is his Son--The Cardinal’s Leniency towards the Abbé and his Persecution by the Vatican-...

The Novelist’s Definition of Marriage--The Modern “Market”--“One Woman, One Man”--Marie Corelli’s Exhortation to Women--“God will not be Mocked”--The Religious Instruction of Ch...

Marie Corelli, Adopted as an Infant, by Dr. Charles Mackay--Description of Mackay’s Career--The “Rosebud” and her Fancies--Absence of Child Playmates--Marie Corelli at the Conve...

Its Original Title--The MS. Accepted by Bentleys--Its Name Suggested by Dr. Mackay--The Press and the “Romance”--Its Reception by the Public, and its Effect on Readers--Marie Co...

Charles Kingsley and “Women’s Writings”--Marie Corelli’s Idea in Penning “Barabbas”--The Character of “Judith”--St. Peter’s Definition of a Lie--The Character of Jesus of Nazare...