| | MARIE CORELLI - LoveToKnow Article on MARIE CORELLI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Miss Corelli had the advantage of writing quite sincerely and with conviction, amid what superior critics sneered at as bad style and sensationalism, on themes which conventional readers nevertheless enjoyed, and round plots which were dramatic and vigorous. |
| | When she went to live at Stratford-on-Avon, her personality, and her importance in the literary world, became further allied with the historic associations of the place; and in the public life of women writers her utterances had the rclame which is emphasized by journalistic publicity. |
| | Such success is not to be gauged by purely literary standards; the popularity of Miss Corellis novels is a phenomenon not so much of literature as of literary energyentirely creditable to the journalistic resource of the writer, and characteristic of contemporary pleasure in readable fiction. |
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