Marie Corelli was one of Stratford-upon-Avon's most flamboyant & contentious personalities. She was the best-selling author of her day, eclipsing Charles Dickens, H.G. Wells & Wilkie Collins combined. Queen Victoria was a huge fan & insisted on being sent a copy of each new book.
@WhiteRaceSavior “I cannot but think some risks are run by breaking into the last rest of a king of Egypt whose tomb is specially and solemnly guarded, and robbing him of his possessions. According to a rare book I possess, ...
@AuthorGFAllen In the Victorian era the most popular writer was not Dickens, Thackery or even Scott. It was Marie Corelli. She wrote spiritualist romances, kind of like the fantasy romances women read now but without the explicit sex.
"The object of a woman's existence is not to war with man, or to allow man to war with her, but simply to conquer him and hold him in subservience without so much as a threat or a blow"
– Marie Corelli
334: The Sorrows of Satan - Marie Corelli (1895) Intro
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Genre: 19th Century, British Literature, Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Gothic, Horror, Religion, Victorian
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@wabbey "England's Queen is dead! The words sound as heavily as though one should say, 'The sun is no longer in the sky!' Strange indeed is it to think of England without her Queen!" Marie Corelli
@HistoryExtra "England's Queen is dead! The words sound as heavily as though one should say, 'The sun is no longer in the sky!' Strange indeed is it to think of England without her Queen!" Marie Corelli