Short excerpt: She smiled and extended her arms, and a whole flock of the birds came fluttering about her in a whirl of wings, perching on her shoulders and alighting at her feet.
Innocent : her fancy and his fact
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Mary Mackay (1855-1924) was an English novelist famous for her melodramatic themes and better known by her pen name Marie Corelli. Beginning her career as a musician, Corelli became one of the best-selling authors of her time. Her books were collected by the Royal family as well as by Churchill. In her writings, she attempted to unite different spiritual ideals with Christianity. Her first novel published in 1886, was A Romance of Two Worlds.
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Nice story about the treatment of women,
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This is a pretty good story of a girl on a farm who discovers that she is a foundling and goes off to London where she becomes famous. Corelli's writing is fairly simple, but she keeps the story interesting by creating emotional, believable characters. She does a very good job developing the girl's progression from naivete through downfall, though I found the downfall to be a bit sudden and overdone. A favorite theme of the author's is how men like to control women, and how men disapprove of women expressing their intellect and artistic ability. I'm guessing that Corelli was a victim of that treatment, and wrote about it in the hope of getting men to realize the idiocy of it.I just finished a book similar to this one, with two female leads and a completely different ending- Infelice by Augusta Wilson.
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Briar Farm, Miss Leigh, Lord Blythe, Sieur Amadis, Farmer Jocelyn, Amadis de Jocelyn, Lady Blythe, Robin Clifford, Uncle Hugo, Pierce Armitage, Ned Landon, Hugo Jocelyn, Mister Robin, Miss Armitage, Mister Jocelyn, Morning Post, Miss Lavinia, Miss Jocelyn, John Harrington, Poor Robin, Ena Armitage, Priscilla Priday, Lavinia Leigh, Lady Maude Blythe, Miss Innocent Browse Sample Pages:
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- Idol of Suburbia: Marie Corelli and Late-Victorian Literary Culture (Victorian Literature and Culture Series) by Annette R. Federico on page 99, page 148, and Back Matter
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