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The Middle Class Novels Of Arnold Bennett And Marie Corelli: Realising The Ideals And Emotions Of Late Victorian Women, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
The Middle Class Novels Of Arnold Bennett And Marie Corelli: Realising The Ideals And Emotions Of Late Victorian Women, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
This book builds on the large volume of existing literature that details the social, moral and economic context in which women of this era operated. It further complements the smaller body of existing writing that probes the interior lives of women. However, where as these latter works use personal documents, such as diaries and letters, to gain insight into the interior lives of mainly upper middle- and upper-class women, this study concentrates on women from the lower and middle levels of the middle classes and on the lower classes.
Marie Corelli (1855-1924), Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
Marie Corelli (1855-1924), Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
During her lifetime, Marie Corelli (pseudonym for Mary Mackay) managed to attain what would today be referred to as superstar status. According to one of her biographers, Brian Masters, Corelli reigned as the bestselling writer in the world for almost thirty years, during which time at least thirty of the novels she published were ‘world best-sellers.’ Her romances, blending sensationalism with transcendentalism, outsold those of all her contemporary literary rivals, and she broke all previous publishing records by selling an average of 100,000 copies of her books per year. It was not unusual to hear of thousands fighting to touch …