| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
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| Corelli, Marie |
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(k r l´ ) (KEY) , pseud. of Mary Mackay (mk ´) (KEY) , 1855–1924, English novelist. Her popular, highly moralistic books, written in flamboyant, pretentious prose, include A Romance of Two Worlds (1886), Thelma (1887), Barabbas (1893), and The Sorrows of Satan (1895). She was Queen Victoria’s favorite novelist. | 1 | | See biographies by E. Bigland (1953) and W. S. Scott (1955). | 2 |
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