Marie Corelli

Marie Corelli (* as Mary Mackay , May 1, 1855 in London ; † April 21, 1924 in Stratford-upon-Avon ; also known as Minnie Mackay ) was a British occultist and writer .

Life

Mary Mackay was the illegitimate daughter of the Scottish poet and composer Charles Mackay and his servant, Elizabeth Mills. In 1866 the young girl was educated at a Paris convent and was only allowed to return to her homeland for the first time after four years.

She lived with her companion Bertha Vyer for over 40 years. Mary and Bertha were buried side by side.

Cinematic adaptations

Some of her works were filmed in the silent film era of the 1920s:

1887. Thelma : 1916 (A Modern Thelma) with Vivian Martin , 1918 with Malvina Longfellow , 1922 with Jane Novak
1890. Wormwood : 1915 with John St. Polis
1895. The Sorrows of Satan : 1917 with Owen Nares and Gladys Cooper , 1926 with Adolphe Menjou and Lya de Putti
1902. Temporal Power : 1916 (Il potere sovrano)
1904. God's Good Man : 1919 with Basil Gill
1908. Holy Orders : 1917 with Malvina Longfellow
1914. Innocent : 1921 with Basil Rathbone
1918. The Young Diana : 1922 with Marion Davies

Her life served as the inspiration for the movie Angel - A life like in a dream (Original title: Angel ) by François Ozon from 2007. The screenplay was written by Martin Crimp and Ozon himself based on the novel of the same name by British writer Elizabeth Taylor (1957), the in turn based on the biography of Marie Corelli.

literature

Reinventing Marie Corelli for the twenty-first century , Brenda Ayres and Sarah E. Maier (eds.), London, UK; New York, NY: Anthem Press, 2019, ISBN 978-1-78308-943-7

Web links

Commons : Marie Corelli - collection of images, videos and audio files

personal data
SURNAME	Corelli, Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mackay, Mary (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British writer
DATE OF BIRTH	May 1, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH	London
DATE OF DEATH	April 21, 1924
Place of death	Stratford upon Avon