Marie Corelli collection, 1885-1932 (bulk 1892-1921).

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Marie Corelli collection, 1885-1932 (bulk 1892-1921).

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Collection includes letters from Corelli to friends, editors, and others regarding her writing and social activities, and a few letters from her half-brother, Eric Mackay, to publishers regarding his writings. Writings by Corelli include two handwritten passages from "Barabbas," a lecture on Byron, a letter to the editor of "The Daily Call," and a transcription of Algernon Charles Swinburne's poem, "Tintagel." There is material relating to Corelli's copyright lawsuit regarding "Temporal Power"; material regarding Corelli's estate and Bertha Vyver's share in it; and three postcards depicting Corelli circa 1900.

0.50 linear ft. (1 box)

Bryn Mawr College, Mariam Coffin Canaday Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7523691

Bryn Mawr College, Mariam Coffin Canaday Library

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Corelli, Marie, 1855-1924

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Marie Corelli was an enigmatic and compelling personality whose colorful personal life and fertile imagination made her the most popular writer of her time. The narrative drive of her stories, combined with exotic settings and passionate conviction, helped overcome the stylistic concerns of literary critics to make her and her writing a phenomenon of turn-of-the-century popular culture. From the description of Marie Corelli letters and postcards, 1894-1924. (Pennsylvania State Univer...

Vyver, Bertha.

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Mackay, Eric, 1851-1898

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British poet Eric Mackay (1851-1898) was the son of journalist and poet Charles Mackay (1812-1889) and the half-brother of novelist Mary Mackay (1855-1924), who published under the pseudonym Marie Corelli. He published several books of poetry in both England and in America, including Love Letters of a Violinist (1886), A Lover's Litanies (1888) and Song of the Sea (1895), as well as a volume of his father's poetry, Gossamer and Snowdrift: The Posthumous Poems of Char...