Marie Corelli: The Writer and the Woman

Rating:
Summary: Eulogy and Propaganda
Review: This eulogistic and contemporary study of Marie Corelli and her vast success reveals as much, if not more, of the writers' own personal prejudices as it does about Corelli. The writers see Corelli as a great propagandist for what is right and wrong in the world, and thus attempt to excuse or expiate her own tendency for hypocrisy and an inability to know her own mind. This is an insight into one kind of her contemporary admirers, but does her less justice than the more even handed biographies of Eileen Bigland and Brian Masters.

Rating:
Summary: Eulogy and Propaganda
Review: This eulogistic and contemporary study of Marie Corelli and her vast success reveals as much, if not more, of the writers' own personal prejudices as it does about Corelli. The writers see Corelli as a great propagandist for what is right and wrong in the world, and thus attempt to excuse or expiate her own tendency for hypocrisy and an inability to know her own mind. This is an insight into one kind of her contemporary admirers, but does her less justice than the more even handed biographies of Eileen Bigland and Brian Masters.