Marie Corelli Writer

Marie Corelli (/kɔːˈrɛli/; 1 May 1855 – 21 April 1924) was a British novelist. 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 Conan Doyle'>Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, and Rudyard Kipling, although critics often derided her work as "the favourite of the common multitude."

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Marie Corelli
Birth dateMay 01, 1855
Birth nameMary Mackay
Date of deathApril 24, 1924
Place of death
Stratford-upon-Avon
Relatives
Charles Mackay

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