Mysterious Miss Marie Corelli

Author : Teresa Ransom
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781783010738

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Mysterious Miss Marie Corelli by Teresa Ransom Pdf

'Who was Marie Corelli?' shrieked the news headlines after she died in 1924, but no-one really knew. Her past was obscured by such a fog of lies and concealment that it was impossible to unravel.In the 1890s her novels were eagerly devoured by millions around the world, her readers ranging from Queen Victoria and Gladstone to the lowest of shop girls. It was known that the famous authoress had dined with the Prince of Wales, entertained Sarah Bernhardt and Ellen Terry, and even managed to split Stratford-upon-Avon into warring factions.In all she wrote thirty-one books, the majority of which were phenomenal bestsellers, in which she dealt intriguingly with the popular themes of the day, spiritualism, science, romance, transcendentalism and religion. At the height of her success Corelli was reputedly one of the most highly paid, and undoubtedly the best selling author in England. Yet the critics generally ignored her or belittled her work.Setting Corelli's story against the context of her time, it tells how she blazed into fame from nothing to become the bestselling novelist of her generation. Born around 1855, Marie, desperate to escape the shame of illegitimacy, had fabricated several different pasts, changed her name from Minnie Mackay to Marie Corelli and knocked fourteen years off her age. In 1886 she published her first novel, A Romance of Two Worlds and rapidly achieved success.In 1899, after a serious illness she moved to Stratford-upon-Avon with her devoted companion, Bertha Vyver. Here she became one of the first conservationists. She bestowed money on many worthy causes, but was constantly at war with the local council for her insistence on the preservation of the town's old houses. When she died in 1924 crowds gathered outside her home. The press - capitalising on her outstanding popularity - invented fantastic stories about her origins. The mystery of Marie Corelli, however, has never been solved. After her death she faded from public memory, but today she is once again being recognised for her extraordinary place in Victorian society and her remarkable ability to captivate the reading public of her era.

Author : Brenda Ayres,Sarah E. Maier
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783089444

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Reinventing Marie Corelli for the Twenty-First Century by Brenda Ayres,Sarah E. Maier Pdf

Novelist Marie Corelli was extremely popular at the turn of the century, so much so that J. M. Stuart-Young complained about the ‘Corelli Cult’. Corelli broke all sales records during the 30 years of her publishing. Her books have enjoyed a resurgence of interest over the past two decades for various reasons but ostensibly due to their challenge to gender constrictions. Corelli’s perception of gender and her gender demeanor were complicated and mercurial. Speculation that she was transgendered, a deduction drawn from her writing and from her having lived in an intimate relationship with Bertha Vyver for 64 years, makes her a person of interest today. Additionally, her 30 novels, short stories and essays are all in print and they reflect a myriad of themes and experiences as relevant today, if not more so, than during the late Victorian period. So far, other than a special issue of ‘Women’s Writing’ in 2006, no collection of essays on Corelli has been published. ‘Reinventing Marie Corelli for the Twenty-First Century’ is the first to remedy that, prompted by her current popularity, a desire to introduce her to a new generation and to instigate critical inquiry that will offer an appreciation for her themes, style and historical place in the literary canon.

Author : Carol Margaret Davison,Elaine M. Hartnell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000733976

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Marie Corelli: Modernism, Morality, and Metaphysics by Carol Margaret Davison,Elaine M. Hartnell Pdf

This collection reappraises and retheorizes Marie Corelli’s diverse fictional writings and locates them in their contemporary literary and social context. Marie Corelli (1855-1924) was a fabulously popular novelist in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Yet, in her day, critics railed against her taste for sentimentality, melodrama, supernatural worlds, and overt didacticism. Many critics are still ambivalent about her writing. However, in their reappraisal, the contributors to this volume largely circumvent the earlier critics and engage afresh with Corelli’s writing strategies; genre choices; representations of social issues; and ideas about science, metaphysics, and morality. Moving beyond the now outdated project of "recovery", the volume also discusses Corelli’s literary market place, analysing both her publishing successes and her decline in popularity. An important theme throughout is Corelli’s troubled relationship with an emerging literary Modernism and an ever-widening gulf between high and popular culture. The contributors interrogate the critical templates, assumptions, and biases of a literary establishment (past and present) centred on Modernist tropes and structures. As a result, the Corelli they unearth is not a defective Modernist but an innovative and original writer who eschewed the dictates of a movement with which she had no empathy. This book was originally published as a special issue of Women’s Writing.

Author : Marie Corelli
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-10
Category : Christian life
ISBN : 9781474441926

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Marie Corelli, A Romance of Two Worlds by Marie Corelli Pdf

Marie Corelli's A Romance of Two Worlds is regarded as one of the most culturally important Victorian bestsellers. This critical edition offers instructive access to this multifaceted but still largely underappreciated novel.

Author : Marie Corelli
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004-04-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770482760

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Wormwood by Marie Corelli Pdf

Though disparaged by literary critics of her day, Marie Corelli was one of the most popular novelists of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. Wormwood (1890) is a lurid tale of unrequited love, betrayal, vengeance, murder, suicide, and addiction. The novel recounts the degeneration of Gaston Beauvais, a promising young Parisian man who, betrayed by his fiancée and his best friend, falls prey to the seductive powers of absinthe. The impact of Gaston's debauchery and addiction on himself, his family, and his friends is graphically recounted in this important contribution to the literature of fin de siècle decadence. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and a generous selection of contextualizing documents, including excerpts from Corelli's writings on art and literature, nineteenth-century degeneration theories, and clinical and artistic views on absinthe.

Author : Kirby-Jane Hallum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317317975

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Aestheticism and the Marriage Market in Victorian Popular Fiction by Kirby-Jane Hallum Pdf

Based on close readings of five Victorian novels, Hallum presents an original study of the interaction between popular fiction, the marriage market and the aesthetic movement. She uses the texts to trace the development of aestheticism, examining the differences between the authors, including their approach, style and gender.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Wormwood 53 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Brenda Ayres
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313039317

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Silent Voices by Brenda Ayres Pdf

Some of the greatest English novels were written during the Victorian era, and many are still widely read and taught today. But many others written during that period have been neglected by scholars and modern readers alike. A number of these novels were written by women and were popular when published. Moreover, they reveal perspectives of 19th-century British culture not present in canonized works and therefore revise our understanding of Victorian life and attitudes. With the increasing interest in revising Victorian history and gender scholarship, especially through the rediscovery of lost texts written by women, this book is a timely and much needed study. The expert contributors to this volume argue the value of novels by such Victorian women writers as Grace Aguilar, Catherine Crowe, Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, Annie E. Holdsworth, Ella Hepworth Dixon, Flora Annie Steel, Anne Thackeray, Sarah Grand, Marie Corelli, and others. Most of the chapters address numerous works by a particular writer. Each focuses on different social issues as well, though most of them share an interest in gender politics. Topics discussed include a 19th-century Jewish novelist's navigation through Protestant spirituality, the relationship of noncanonical governess novels to class and gender issues, and forgotten works by women crime writers. Other chapters analyze how women writers impelled social reform and subverted patriarchally defined religious issues.

Author : Marie Corelli
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781458707789

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The Life Everlasting by Marie Corelli Pdf

In this narrative Corelli has beautifully combined her fancy with the realities of life. Even the theories of science are employed by her that help her to create a unique piece of literature. With a mysterious atmosphere pervading the whole narrative, this is a highly engrossing work.

Author : Martin Hipsky
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780821443774

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Modernism and the Women’s Popular Romance in Britain, 1885–1925 by Martin Hipsky Pdf

Today’s mass-market romances have their precursors in late Victorian popular novels written by and for women. In Modernism and the Women’s Popular Romance Martin Hipsky scrutinizes some of the best-selling British fiction from the period 1885 to 1925, the era when romances, especially those by British women, were sold and read more widely than ever before or since. Recent scholarship has explored the desires and anxieties addressed by both “low modern” and “high modernist” British culture in the decades straddling the turn of the twentieth century. In keeping with these new studies, Hipsky offers a nuanced portrait of an important phenomenon in the history of modern fiction. He puts popular romances by Mrs. Humphry Ward, Marie Corelli, the Baroness Orczy, Florence Barclay, Rebecca West, Elinor Glyn, Victoria Cross, Ethel Dell, and E. M. Hull into direct relationship with the fiction of Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, James Joyce, and D. H. Lawrence, among other modernist greats.

Author : Gijs Mom
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782383772

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Atlantic Automobilism by Gijs Mom Pdf

Offering a sweeping transatlantic perspective, this book explains the current obsession with automobiles by delving deep into the motives of early car users. It provides a synthesis of our knowledge about the emergence and persistence of the car, using a broad range of material including novels, poems, films, and songs ...

Author : Sarkar
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8131726762

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Moneta S Veil by Sarkar Pdf

Author : Adrienne E. Gavin,Carolyn Oulton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230354265

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Writing Women of the Fin de Siècle by Adrienne E. Gavin,Carolyn Oulton Pdf

Concentrating on a period of significant social and political change and exploring both canonical and newly rediscovered texts, this book critically assess the changing culture of the late-Victorian period as represented by a range of women writers through a range of essays by leading academics in the field and cutting-edge work by newer scholars.

Author : T. F. Coates,Warren Bell
Publisher : Health Research Books
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1996-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0787301868

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Marie Corelli by T. F. Coates,Warren Bell Pdf

1903 a biographical study of this modern mystic whose works were obviously inspired. Marie Corelli's unique personality has aroused interest and curiosity among all classes.

Author : S. Karschay
Publisher : Springer
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137450333

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Degeneration, Normativity and the Gothic at the Fin de Siècle by S. Karschay Pdf

This exciting new study looks at degeneration and deviance in nineteenth-century science and late-Victorian Gothic fiction. The questions it raises are as relevant today as they were at the nineteenth century's fin de siecle: What constitutes the norm from which a deviation has occurred? What exactly does it mean to be 'normal' or 'abnormal'?