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R. S. Warren Bell. Marie Corelli: The Writer and the Woman
Marie Corelli: The Writer and the Woman
Table of Contents
Preface
Illustrations
MARIE CORELLI. The Writer and the Woman
CHAPTER I. THE HEROINE OF THE STORY
CHAPTER II. MARIE CORELLI’S CHILDHOOD—EARLY INFLUENCES—LITERARY BEGINNINGS—THE MACKAYS—FATHER AND SON
CHAPTER III “A ROMANCE OF TWO WORLDS”
CHAPTER IV “VENDETTA” AND “THELMA”
CHAPTER V “ARDATH”—THE STORY OF A DEAD SELF—THE WONDERFUL CITY OF AL-KYRIS—THE MISSION OF THE BOOK
CHAPTER VI “WORMWOOD” AND “THE SOUL OF LILITH”
CHAPTER VII. MR. BENTLEY’S ENCOURAGEMENT—SOME LETTERS OF AN OLD PUBLISHER
CHAPTER VIII “BARABBAS”—A “PASSION PLAY” IN PROSE
CHAPTER IX “THE SORROWS OF SATAN,”—AS A BOOK AND AS A PLAY,—THE STORY OF THE DRAMATIZATION
CHAPTER X “THE MIGHTY ATOM” AND “BOY”
CHAPTER XI “THE MURDER OF DELICIA” AND “ZISKA”[C]
CHAPTER XII “THE MASTER CHRISTIAN”—IF CHRIST CAME TO ROME!
CHAPTER. XIII “THE MASTER CHRISTIAN”—(Continued)
CHAPTER XIV “TEMPORAL POWER”
CHAPTER XV. SPEECHES AND LECTURES
CHAPTER XVI. MARIE CORELLI’S VIEWS ON MARRIAGE
CHAPTER XVII. SOME PERSONAL ITEMS
CHAPTER XVIII. AT STRATFORD-ON-AVON
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R. S. Warren Bell, Thomas F. G. Coates
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Mackay severed his connection with The Illustrated London News in 1859, and in the following year started The London Review, which did not succeed. Failure was the fate, too, of another periodical, Robin Goodfellow, founded by him in 1861. During the American Civil War, Mackay was the special correspondent of the New York Times. Dr. Mackay’s efforts in prose were as numerous and as interesting as his verses. His “Forty Years’ Recollections of Life, Literature, and Public Affairs from 1830 to 1870,” is a classic and a literary treat to every one who reads it; for herein is set forth a graphic picture of the life and times of that most interesting period, not only in England, but in the United States. His relations with Greeley and with President Lincoln were of altogether exceptional interest. Few men had experiences so varied and interesting as those of Charles Mackay—his degree, by the way, was that of LL. D. of Glasgow University—and few men were so capable as was he of vividly describing what he did, and saw, and heard.
In addition to writing many volumes of songs and ballads himself, it should be mentioned that Mackay compiled the well-known “A Thousand and One Gems of English Poetry.”
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