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Corelli, Marie |
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Corelli, Marie (kərĕl`ē), pseud. of Mary Mackay (məkī`), 1855–1924, English novelist. Her popular, highly moralistic books, written in flamboyant, pretentious prose, include A Romance of Two Worlds (1886), Thelma (1887), Barabbas (1893), and The Sorrows of Satan (1895). She was Queen Victoria's favorite novelist.
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| Leavis saw the need to try to account for why Dickens and George Eliot had enjoyed large, unified audiences for their novels and why, within a generation, Henry James and Marie Corelli had radically different readerships. A month after reading Marie Corelli she reflected, with almost Corellian mysticism, "A mighty, unconquerable, force born of Heaven, which peoples the world, makes happiness, creates harmony, instills higher motives, and--what doesn't love do? |
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