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Mary corelli biography
Marie Corelli
English novelist (1855–1924)
Mary Mackay (1 May 1855 – 21 April 1924), also called Minnie Mackey and known by her pseudonym Marie Corelli (,[1][2]also,[3][3][4]), was an English novelist.
From the appearance of her first novel A Romance of Two Worlds in 1886, she became a bestselling fiction-writer, her works largely concerned with Christianity, reincarnation, astral projection and mysticism. Yet despite her many distinguished patrons, she was often ridiculed by critics.
Corelli lived her later years in Stratford-upon-Avon, whose historic buildings she fought hard to preserve.
Life and writings
Early life
Mary Mills was born in London to Mary Elizabeth Mills, a servant of the Scottish poet and songwriter Dr Charles Mackay, her biological father, who was married to another woman at the time of young Mary's conception.[5] After his first wife died, he married Mary Elizabe