Thursday, November 9, 2017

Marie Corelli: Author in 1886 of "A Romance of Two Worlds":favorite author of Queen Victoria of England

 My mother introduced me to Marie Corelli's works likely around 1963 when I was 15. In Reading "A Romance of Two Worlds" written in 1886 it gave me the idea of soul traveling to the center of the galaxy which I did in my early 20s (around 1970 or so while I was in college). However, what I found in the center of the galaxy was not at all what I expected to find. Instead of how we think of God I found the leader of our Galaxy with well over 1 million IQ or more who was not physical but could take on any form actually and more like "Zeus" or "Odin" maybe except much more peaceful than those ancient archetypes. My thought when I soul traveled to the Galactic Core was that the Greek and then Norse Pantheon came from other Soul Travelers who also visited the Galactic Core like I did. I then asked that earth not be nuked out of existence like Maldek was 65 million years ago. The Galactic Leader who I call "The Galactic Sentience" which describes what he is as a Great Galactic AWARENESS that I can understand why some people would call this being "a God" but who doesn't consider himself to be a God but only an immortal leader of the Galaxy who is not even a physical being unless he wants to manifest as one and who does not naturally even live in time and space as his natural reality is from Dark or better said (Unknown) matter for his race of beings. His Race builds Galaxies like farms to have more children. Otherwise, galaxies would not exist at all.

The Galactic Sentience agreed that earth should be saved and not allowed to be nuked out of existence and said that would be accomplished by any means necessary to accomplish this end.
So, as I have said before earth is still here 1 million years from now but it likely will be a bumpy road to get there.
And we should all thank the Galactic Sentience in our prayers that earth won't nuke out and stay nuked out ever. Because through retroactive time travel anytime earth gets nuked it will be corrected now ongoing.

Dark or Unknown matter does not contain either time or space. Only matter contains time and space as we know it and that is only found inside a Galaxy.
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Marie Corelli

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Marie Corelli
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Born Mary Mackay
1 May 1855
London
Died 24 April 1924 (aged 68)
Stratford-upon-Avon
Occupation Novelist
Nationality British
Genre Gothic, Fantasy, Scientific romance
Relatives Charles Mackay (father)
Marie Corelli (/kɔːˈrɛli/;[1] 1 May 1855 – 21 April 1924) was an English novelist and mystic.
She enjoyed a period of great literary success from the publication of her first novel in 1886 until World War I. Corelli's novels sold more copies than the combined sales of popular contemporaries, including Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, and Rudyard Kipling, although critics often derided her work as "the favourite of the common multitude".

Contents

Life and writings

Early life

Miss Marie Corelli and her pet dog
Mary Mackay was born in London to Elizabeth Mills, a servant of the Scottish poet and songwriter Dr. Charles Mackay, her biological father.[2] In 1866, eleven-year-old Mary was sent to a Parisian convent to further her education. She returned to Britain four years later in 1870.

Career

Mackay began her career as a musician, adopting the name Marie Corelli for her billing. Eventually she turned to writing and published her first novel, A Romance of Two Worlds, in 1886. In her time, she was the most widely read author of fiction. Her works were collected by Winston Churchill, Randolph Churchill, and members of the British Royal Family, among others.[3]
Mackay faced criticism from the literary elite for her overly melodramatic writing. In The Spectator, Grant Allen called her "a woman of deplorable talent who imagined that she was a genius, and was accepted as a genius by a public to whose commonplace sentimentalities and prejudices she gave a glamorous setting." [4]James Agate represented her as combining "the imagination of a Poe with the style of an Ouida and the mentality of a nursemaid."[5][6]
A recurring theme in Corelli's books is her attempt to reconcile Christianity with reincarnation, astral projection, and other mystical ideas. She was associated at some point with the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis; a Rosicrucian and mystical organization.,[7][8][9] and her books were a part of the foundation of today's New Age religion. Her portrait was painted by Helen Donald-Smith.
Corelli famously had little time for the press. In 1902 she wrote to the editor of The Gentlewoman to complain that her name had been left out of a list of the guests in the Royal Enclosure at the Braemar Highland Gathering, saying she suspected this had been done intentionally. The editor replied that her name had indeed been left out intentionally, because of her own stated contempt for the press and for the snobbery of those wishing to appear in "news puffs" of society events. Both letters were published in full in the next issue.[10]

Personal life

Marie Corelli, Novelist and protector of local heritage, lived and died in Stratford-upon-Avon, 1901–1924. Her house, Mason Croft, still stands on Church Street and is now the home of the Shakespeare Institute.
Corelli spent her final years in Stratford-upon-Avon. There, she fought hard for the preservation of Stratford's 17th-century buildings, and donated money to help their owners remove the plaster or brickwork that often covered their original timber framed facades.[11] Novelist Barbara Comyns Carr mentions Corelli's guest appearance at an exhibition of Anglo-Saxon items found at Bidford-on-Avon in 1923.[12] Corelli's eccentricity became well-known. She would boat on the Avon in a gondola, complete with a gondolier, whom she had brought over from Venice.[13] In his autobiography, Mark Twain, who had a deep dislike of Corelli, describes visiting her in Stratford and how the meeting changed his perception.
Bertha Vyver
For over forty years, Corelli lived with her companion, Bertha Vyver,[14] to whom she left everything when she died. Although she did not identify herself as lesbian, biographers and critics have noted the frequent erotic descriptions of female beauty that appear in her novels, albeit they are expressed by men.[15][16][17] Descriptions of the deep love between the two women by their contemporaries have added to the speculation that their relationship may have been romantic.[citation needed]
Corelli was known to have expressed a genuine passion for the artist Arthur Severn, to whom she wrote daily letters from 1906 to 1917. Severn was the son of Joseph Severn and close friend to John Ruskin. In 1910, Severn and Corelli collaborated on The Devil's Motor, with Severn providing illustrations for Corelli's story. Her love for the long-married painter, her only known romantic attachment to a man, remained unrequited; in fact Severn often belittled Corelli's success.[18][19][20]
During the First World War, Corelli's personal reputation suffered from being convicted of food hoarding.[21]
Marie Corelli died in Stratford and is buried there in the Evesham Road cemetery. Later Bertha van der Vyver was buried alongside her.
She died in Stratford and is buried there in the Evesham Road cemetery.[22] Later Bertha van der Vyver was buried alongside her.

Legacy

Corelli is generally accepted to have been the inspiration for at least two of E. F. Benson's characters in his Lucia series of six novels and a short story. The main character, Emmeline "Lucia" Lucas, is a vain and snobbish woman of the upper middle class with an obsessive desire to be the leading light of her community, to associate with the nobility, and to see her name reported in the social columns, coupled with a comical pretension to education and musical talent, neither of which she possesses. She also pretends to be able to speak Italian, something Corelli was known to have done. Miss Susan Leg is an author of highly successful writer of pulp romances under the pseudonym Rudolph da Vinci. The character makes her appearance in Benson's work a few years after Marie Corelli's death in 1924.
It is also most probable that Corelli was the inspiration for "Rita's" (Eliza Humphreys') main character in Diana of the Ephesians; which was published a year before E. F. Benson's first Lucia novel, and had been rejected by Hutchinson, who later published the "Lucia" Lucas novels.[23]
In 2007, the British film Angel, based on a book by Elizabeth Taylor, was released as a thinly-veiled biography of Corelli. The film starred Romola Garai in the Corelli role and also starred Sam Neill and Charlotte Rampling. It was directed by François Ozon, who stated, "The character of Angel was inspired by Marie Corelli, a contemporary of Oscar Wilde and Queen Victoria's favourite writer. Corelli was one of the first writers to become a star, writing bestsellers for an adoring public. Today she has been totally forgotten, even in England."[24]

Works

Library resources about
Marie Corelli
By Marie Corelli

Novels

  • A Romance of Two Worlds (1886)
  • Vendetta!; or, The Story of One Forgotten (1886)
  • Thelma (1887)
  • Ardath (1889)
  • Wormwood: A Drama of Paris (1890)
  • The Soul of Lilith (1892)
  • Barabbas, A Dream of the World's Tragedy (1893)
  • The Sorrows of Satan (1895)
  • The Mighty Atom (1896)
  • The Murder of Delicia (1896)
  • Ziska: The Problem of a Wicked Soul (1897)
  • Boy (1900)
  • Jane (1900)
  • The Master-Christian (1900)
  • Temporal Power: a Study in Supremacy (1902)
  • God's Good Man (1904)
  • The Strange Visitation of Josiah McNasson: A Ghost Story (1904)
  • Treasure of Heaven (1906)
  • Holy Orders, The Tragedy of a Quiet Life (1908)
  • Life Everlasting (1911)
  • Innocent: Her Fancy and His Fact (1914)
  • The Young Diana (1918)
  • The Secret Power (1921)
  • Love and the Philosopher (1923)
  • Open Confession to a Man from a Woman (1925)

Short story collections

  • Cameos: Short Stories (1895)
  • The Song of Miriam & Other Stories (1898)
  • A Christmas Greeting (1902)
  • Delicia & Other Stories (1907)
  • The Love of Long Ago, and Other Stories (1918)

Non-fiction

  • The Modern Marriage Market (1898) (with others)
  • Free Opinions Freely Expressed (1905)
  • The Silver Domino; or, Side Whispers, Social & Literary (1892) (anonymous)

Film adaptations

Theatre adaptations

  • Vendetta (2007) Adapted by Gillian Hiscott The Library Theatre Ltd; published by Jasper
  • The Young Diana (2008) Gillian Hiscott; published by Jasper

Notes


  • "Corelli". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
    1. "Interviews about Angel: François Ozon - Romola Garai - Michael Fassbender". François Ozon. Retrieved March 4, 2015.

    References

    • Bleiler, Everett (1948). The Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Chicago: Shasta Publishers. p. 85.
    • Carr, Barbara Comyns, Sisters by a River (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1947; new edition by Virago Press 1985)
    • Coates, T. F. G. and R. S. Warren Bell. Marie Corelli: the Writer and the Woman. George W. Jacobs & Co.: Philadelphia, 1903. Reprinted 1969 by Health Research, Mokelume Hill, CA.
    • Masters, Brian (1978). Now Barabbas was a rotter: the extraordinary life of Marie Corelli. London: H. Hamilton. p. 326.
    • Felski, Rita (1995). The Gender of Modernity. Cambridge: Harvard U P. p. 247.
    • Frederico, Annette (2000). Idol of suburbia: Marie Corelli and late-Victorian literary culture. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. p. 201.
    • Lyons, Martyn. 2011. Books: a living history. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum.
    • Ransom, Teresa, The Mysterious Miss Marie Corelli: Queen of Victorian Bestsellers (2013)
    • Scott, William Stuart, Marie Corelli: the story of a friendship (London: Hutchinson, 1955)

    Bibliography

    • Bigland, Eileen Marie Corelli, the woman and the legend: a biography, Jarrolds, London 1953
    • Coates, T. F. G. and R. S. Warren Bell. Marie Corelli: the Writer and the Woman, George W. Jacobs & Co.: Philadelphia, 1903. Reprinted 1969 by Health Research, Mokelume Hill, CA.
    • Federico, Annette R. Idol Of Suburbia: Marie Corelli and Late-Victorian Literary Culture, University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, 2000
    • Masters, Brian Now Barabbas was a rotter: the extraordinary life of Marie Corelli, H. Hamilton, London, 1978
    • Ransom, Teresa The Mysterious Miss Marie Corelli: Queen of Victorian Bestellers, Sutton, 1999
    • Scott, William Stuart, Marie Corelli: the story of a friendship, London: Hutchinson, 1955
    • Vyver, Bertha Memoirs of Marie Corelli, A. Rivers Ltd, 1930

    External links

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  • Marie Corelli in Encyclopædia Britannica

  • Coates & Warren Bell (1969)

  • Scott, p. 30

  • Scott, p. 263.

  • Kirsten McLeod, introduction to Marie Corelli's Wormwood: a drama of Paris, p. 9

  • Schrodter, Willy. A Rosicrucian Notebook: The Secret Sciences Used by Members of the Order (illustrated ed.). Weiser Books, 1992. p. 293. ISBN 9780877287575. Retrieved 7 May 2017.

  • "Who was Marie Corelli?". rosicrucian.50webs.com. Retrieved 2017-05-07.

  • "Understanding reincarnation & esoteric teachings of Rosicrucians". The Rosicrucian Order, AMORC. Retrieved 2017-05-07.

  • Ransom (2013), p. 100

  • The New York Times, 28 June 1903

  • Comyns Carr (1985), p. 124.

  • Venice Boats

  • Frederico, pp. 162–86.

  • Felski, pp. 130–31.

  • Frederico, p. 116.

  • Masters, p. 277.

  • MacLeod, p. 21.

  • Frederico, p. 144.

  • Julia Kuehn, "Marie Corelli's Love Letters to Arthur Severn".

  • "BBC One – Britain's Great War". BBC. 10 February 2014.

  • Wilson, Scott. Resting Places: The Burial Sites of more than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3rd ed.: 2 (Kindle Location 9851). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition.

  • "Rita" The Forgotten Author. By Paul Jones L.R.P.S.

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