Marie Corelli
1855–1924
Biography
Marie Corelli was the pen name of Mary Mackay, an English novelist born in London in 1855 who died in 1924. Her origins were uncertain. Her mother had been a servant in the household of the Scottish poet Charles Mackay, who later married her, and Corelli herself told many stories about her background that biographers have found hard to trust. She chose the name Corelli for her writing. In her later years she lived in Stratford-upon-Avon, where she fought to protect the town's historic buildings.
Her debut novel, A Romance of Two Worlds, came out in 1886. From then on she was the most widely read novelist of her time, though many critics mocked her work. Her novels were preoccupied with Christian faith, reincarnation, astral travel and the mystical, and her admirers included prominent public figures. Her reputation faded during the later twentieth century, but interest in her novels has grown again in the twenty-first.
The site holds Thelma, first published in 1887, a romance between a young Norwegian woman and an Englishman of good family. The story moves through a marriage, a misunderstanding that drives the couple apart, and a reconciliation in Norway. Thelma was one of her early popular successes and went through many editions, and it shows the emotional, romantic style that made her both loved and ridiculed. It is a good place to start for readers who know Corelli only by reputation.
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Books
Thelma
by Marie Corelli
Thelma is a romantic novel by the British writer Marie Corelli, first published in 1887. It portrays the relationship between Thelma, a Norwegian woman, and the Englishman Sir Phillip Errington. A popular success, it ran to more than fifty six editions. This book uses the racial…
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