CHAPTER XVII

SOME PERSONAL ITEMS

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 City”--An Introduction to Mr. Labouchere--Use made of a “Private and Confidential” Letter--“Self-advertisement”: Some Comments on Accusations of this Character brought against Marie Corelli by certain Sections of the Press--The Invitation to the Abbey on the Occasion of the King’s Coronation--An Invitation to open a Nonconformist Bazaar at Brighton, and why it was Declined--Letters from Dr. Parker and the Rev. Hugh Price Hughes--“The Ethics of Criticism”: a letter by E. Rentoul Esler--“To the Quarterly”: Some Verses by Marie Corelli 311