WRITER

Marie Corelli

1855 - 1924

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Mary Mackay (1 May 1855 – 21 April 1924), also called Minnie Mackey and known by her pseudonym Marie Corelli (, also UK: , US: ), was an English novelist. From the appearance of her first novel A Romance of Two Worlds in 1886, she became a bestselling fiction-writer, her works largely concerned with Christianity, reincarnation, astral projection and mysticism. Yet despite her many distinguished patrons, she was often ridiculed by critics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marie Corelli has received more than 255,553 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Marie Corelli is the 2,900th most popular writer (up from 3,263rd in 2019).

Memorability Metrics

  • 260k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.25

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Innocent, her fancy and his fact
Accessible book, English literature, Fiction, religious
1914
Ziska; the problem of a wicked soul
Fiction, Reincarnation, Reincarnation in fiction
1897
A romance of two worlds
Fiction, general, English literature, Fiction, religious
1880
The sorrows of Satan, or, The strange experience of one Geoffrey Tempest, millionaire ; a romance
Fiction, Millionaires, Devil
1895
Vendetta
Fiction, general, Fiction, horror, Fiction, fantasy, general
1886
Thelma
Norway in fiction, Fiction, Accessible book
1870

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Marie Corelli ranks 2,900 out of 7,302. Before her are Huseyn Javid, Léon Daudet, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Walter Pater, Budd Schulberg, and Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. After her are Lev Rubinstein, Jean Richepin, Jean-Antoine de Baïf, K. Shivaram Karanth, Salama Moussa, and Ana Blandiana.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1855, Marie Corelli ranks 53. Before her are David Bruce, Hermes da Fonseca, Paul Émile Appell, Jean Lorrain, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, and Princess Marie of Prussia. After her are Emil Paur, Julius Röntgen, Rodolphe Lindt, Marie-Joseph Lagrange, Erik Werenskiold, and Hugo von Pohl. Among people deceased in 1924, Marie Corelli ranks 65. Before her are Azem Galica, Jean-François Raffaëlli, Nilo Peçanha, Carl Anton Larsen, William Bayliss, and Luigi Pelloux. After her are Muhammad Jamalul Alam II, Florence Harding, Cipriano Castro, Emma Eckstein, Jacob Israël de Haan, and Pavel Urysohn.

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