The mysterious Miss Marie Corelli : queen of Victorian bestsellers / Teresa Ransom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ransom, Teresa.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corelli, Marie, 1855-1924.

Corelli, Marie.

Novelists, English--19th century--Biography.

Novelists, English.

Women novelists, English.

Women novelists, English--19th century--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

vii, 247 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Stroud, Gloucestershire : Sutton, 1999.

Summary:

"'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 discover. She had dined with the Prince of Wales, entertained Sarah Bernhardt and Ellen Terry, and split Stratford-upon-Avon into warring factions. In the 1890s, her novels were eagerly devoured by millions in England, America and the colonies."--BOOK JACKET. "In all she wrote thirty books, the majority of which were phenomenal bestsellers, and she dealt with all the popular themes of the day - spiritualism, science, romance, transcendentalism and religion."--BOOK JACKET. "This new biography describes Corelli's extraordinary rise and considers her as a phenomenon of the Victorian age. Setting Corelli's story against the context of her time, Teresa Ransom examines how she blazed into fame from nothing to become the bestselling novelist of her age."--BOOK JACKET. "Constantly hounded by the press during her lifetime, after her death she faded from public memory, deemed too old-fashioned and moralistic for the permissive 1920s. Today, she is once again being recognised for her extraordinary place in Victorian society, and her ability to captivate the reading public of her age."--BOOK JACKET.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-242) and index.

ISBN:

0750915706

OCLC:

40839639