The Plain Truth of the Stratford-on-Avon Controversy
Author: Marie Corelli
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Published: 1903
Total Pages: 114
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Author: Marie Corelli
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Published: 1903
Total Pages: 114
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Terry L Meyers
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-10-28
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 1040249795
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese three volumes of letters by Algernon Charles Swinburne add approximately 600 letters by this poet that were not available when Cecil Y. Lang published his six volume edition of Swinburne's letters. The volumes also contain a selection of several hundred other letters addressed to Swinburne.
Author: Terry L Meyers
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-07-31
Total Pages: 1262
ISBN-13: 1040156150
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese three volumes of letters by Algernon Charles Swinburne add approximately 600 letters by this poet that were not available when Cecil Y. Lang published his six volume edition of Swinburne's letters. The volumes also contain a selection of several hundred other letters addressed to Swinburne.
Author: P. Rawlings
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2005-03-02
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 0230504965
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHenry James and the Abuse of the Past explores the complex uses to which James puts his oblique experience of the American Civil War. Why does James use and abuse the past by fabricating and distorting people and events in his autobiographical work? The study integrates four elements: history, the past and problems of narration and representation; the homoerotics of the Civil war tales and other soldiering fiction; a life-long pre-occupation with Shakespeare as a historical figure; and theories of time as they come under the pressure of trauma and war. This well-written, insightful and persuasive study is an important contribution to James scholarship and will be of interest to any students and scholars of James
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 1168
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 1180
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Aston Manor (England). Public Library
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 84
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 664
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Teresa Ransom
Publisher: eBook Partnership
Published: 2013-02-27
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 1783010738
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'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 unravel.In the 1890s her novels were eagerly devoured by millions around the world, her readers ranging from Queen Victoria and Gladstone to the lowest of shop girls. It was known that the famous authoress had dined with the Prince of Wales, entertained Sarah Bernhardt and Ellen Terry, and even managed to split Stratford-upon-Avon into warring factions.In all she wrote thirty-one books, the majority of which were phenomenal bestsellers, in which she dealt intriguingly with the popular themes of the day, spiritualism, science, romance, transcendentalism and religion. At the height of her success Corelli was reputedly one of the most highly paid, and undoubtedly the best selling author in England. Yet the critics generally ignored her or belittled her work.Setting Corelli's story against the context of her time, it tells how she blazed into fame from nothing to become the bestselling novelist of her generation. Born around 1855, Marie, desperate to escape the shame of illegitimacy, had fabricated several different pasts, changed her name from Minnie Mackay to Marie Corelli and knocked fourteen years off her age. In 1886 she published her first novel, A Romance of Two Worlds and rapidly achieved success.In 1899, after a serious illness she moved to Stratford-upon-Avon with her devoted companion, Bertha Vyver. Here she became one of the first conservationists. She bestowed money on many worthy causes, but was constantly at war with the local council for her insistence on the preservation of the town's old houses. When she died in 1924 crowds gathered outside her home. The press - capitalising on her outstanding popularity - invented fantastic stories about her origins. The mystery of Marie Corelli, however, has never been solved. After her death she faded from public memory, but today she is once again being recognised for her extraordinary place in Victorian society and her remarkable ability to captivate the reading public of her era.