Books by MARIE CORELLI
Marie Corelli (1855-1924), born in London, was the illegitimate daughter of Dr. Charles Mackay and his mistress, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Mills, whom Dr. Mackay married after his first wife died. After her first book, A Romance of Two Worlds, was published in 1886, she became the best selling author in England, and the favorite of Queen Victoria, who ordered a collection of all Marie's books. Despite the savage attacks of critics, her books often broke sales records. She was the only author invited to the coronation of Edward VII, and counted among her friends Mark Twain, Ouida, the Empress Frederick of Germany, and many other writers and members of royalty.
She was the most popular novelist of the turn of the century, outselling H. G. Wells and Arthur Conan Doyle by the thousands. For thirty years she was ridiculed by reviewers and the literary elite--Edmund Gosse dismissed her as "that little milliner"--but these opinions had no impact on her mass appeal. In 1895 she broke all previous publishing records, and by 1906 a Corelli novel sold 100,000 copies a year.
Marie Corelli's books were not only works of fiction, but also of faith, the occult, religion, spiritualism, mystics, mysticism, reincarnation and more...
She was the most popular novelist of the turn of the century, outselling H. G. Wells and Arthur Conan Doyle by the thousands. For thirty years she was ridiculed by reviewers and the literary elite--Edmund Gosse dismissed her as "that little milliner"--but these opinions had no impact on her mass appeal. In 1895 she broke all previous publishing records, and by 1906 a Corelli novel sold 100,000 copies a year.
Marie Corelli's books were not only works of fiction, but also of faith, the occult, religion, spiritualism, mystics, mysticism, reincarnation and more...
