Female : Romantic novelist. By 1895 it was rumoured she was earning £10,000 per novel. For a short while, in terms of sales, she was the most popular novelist in Britain. She bought a home in Stratford so as to compare herself with Shakespeare and succeeded in becoming known as 'The Swan of Avon'. Died of heart disease

Nationality : English (of Italian father and Scottish mother) Place of Birth : London

Date of Birth : 1855 Date of Death : 1924 Age : 69

Pseudonyms : Real Name = Mary Mackay

1886-1890
A Romance of Two Worlds (1886 Bentley) - 2 vols
Vendetta : The Story of One Forgotten (1886 Bentley) - 3 vols
Thelma : A Society Novel (1887 Bentley) - 3 vols
Thelma : A Norwegian Princess (1887) - reissue of above
Ardath : The Story of a Dead Self (1889 Bentley) - 3 vols
My Wonderful Wife : A Study in Smoke (1889 F V White)
Wormwood : A Drama of Paris (1890 Bentley) - 3 vols

1891-1900
The Soul of Lilith (1892 Bentley) - 3 vols
The Silver Domino, or Side Whispers, Social & Literary (1892 Lamley) - Anon
Barabbas: A Dream of the World's Tragedy (1893 Methuen) - 3 vols
The Sorrows of Satan (1895 Methuen)
[Filmed in 1919 as "Leaves from Satan's Book"]
Cameos : Short Stories (1896 Hutchinson)
The Mighty Atom (1896 Hutchinson)
The Murder of Delicia (1896 Skeffington) (1896 Lippincott)
The Hired Baby, with Other Stories and Social Sketches (1891 Tauchnitz)
Ziska : The Problem of a Wicked Soul (1897 Arrowsmith)
The Beauties of Marie Corelli (1897 Redway)
The Marie Corelli Birthday Book (1897 Hutchinson)
Jane : A Social Incident (1897 Hutchinson)
The Modern Marriage Market (1898 Hutchinson)
- with Flora Annie Steel & The Countess of Malmesbury
Boy : A Sketch (1900 Hutchinson)
The Master Christian (1900 Methuen) (1900 Dodd Mead, NY)

1901-1910
Patriotism or Self Advertisement ? : A Social Note on the War (1900 Simpkin) - 34pp
An Open Letter to His Eminence Cardinal Vaughan on His Inhibition
of the Late Dr St George Mivart (1900 Lamley) - 16pp
The Greatest Queen in the World : Tribute to Majesty of England 1837-1900
(1900 Skeffington) - 38pp
The Passing of the Great Queen : A Tribute to the Noble Life of Victoria Regina
(1901 Methuen) - 56pp
A Christmas Greeting of Various Thoughts, Verses and Fancies (1901 Methuen Pb)
Temporal Power : A Study in Supremacy (1902 Methuen 6/-) (1902 Dodd Mead, NY)
The Vanishing Gift : An Address on the Decay of the Imagination (1902 Philosophical Inst)
The Plain Truth of the Stratford-on-Avon Controversy (1903 Methuen) - 67pp
God's Good Man : A Simple Love Story (1904 Methuen)
The Strange Visitation of Josiah McNason : A Christmas Ghost Story (1904 Newnes Pb)
Free Opinions Freely Expressed on Cetrain Phases of Modern Social Life & Conduct
(1905 Constable)
The Treasure of Heaven : A Romance of Riches (1906 Constable)
Faith Versus Flunkeyism (1906 Rapid Review Office, London Pb)
Woman, or - Suffragette ? A Question of National Choice (1907 C Arthur Pearson) - 40pp
Delicia and Other Stories (1907 Constable)
Holy Orders : The Tragedy of a Quiet Life (1908 Methuen)
The Devil's Motor : A Fantasy (1910 Hodder & Stoughton) - Arthur Severn
A Christmas Greeting of Various Thoughts, Verses and Fancies
(1910 Hodder & Stoughton) - Signed Ltd Ed

After 1911
The Life Everlasting : A Reality of Romance (1911 Methuen)
[The first edition ran to 100.000 copies]
The Marie Corelli Calendar (1913 Frank Palmer)
Innocent : Her Fancy and His Fact (1914 Hodder & Stoughton)
The Young Diana : An Experiment of the Future (1918 Hutchinson)
Eyes of the Sea : A Tribute to the Grand Fleet (1917 Marshall Bros) - 38pp
Is All Well with England ? A Question (1917 Jarrold) - 30pp
My "Little Bit' (1919 Collins)
The Love of Long Ago & Other Stories (1920 Methuen)
The Secret Power : A Romance of the Time (1921 Methuen)
Love and the Philosopher : A Study in Sentiment (1923 Methuen)
Praise and Prayer : A Simple Home Service (1923 Methuen) - 14pp
Open Confession : To a Man from a Woman (1924 Hutchinson)
Poems (1925 Hutchinson)
The Devil's Motor (nd. London) - Arthur Severn

READING
Kent Carr : Miss Marie Corelli (1901 Drane)
Thomas F G Coates & R S Warren Bell : Marie Corelli - The Writer and the Woman
(1903 Hutchinson)
Bertha Vyver : Memoirs of Marie Corelli (1930 Alston Rivers)
[Vyver was her companion for many decades]
George Bullock : Marie Corelli - The Life & Death of a Best-Seller (1940 Constable)
Eileen Bigland : Marie Corelli - The Woman and the Legend (1953 Jarrolds)
William Stuart Scott : Marie Corelli - The Story of a Friendship (1955 Hutchinson 16/-)
Brian Masters : Now Barabbas was a Rotter - The Extraordinary Life of Marie Corelli
(1978 Hamish Hamilton)
Teresa Random : The Mysterious Miss Marie Corelli - Queen of Victorian Bestsellers
(1999 Sutton £25)