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a woman of deplorable talent who imagined that she was a genius and was accepted as a genius by a public to whose commonplace sentimentalities and prejudices she gave a glamorous setting Grant Allen
the imagination of a Poe with the style of an Ouida and the mentality of a nursemaid James Agate
I hate God Said Angel
And having made this unangellike statement she folded her short arms across her breast and surveyed her horrified audience defiantly
So begins a tale of a poor childs expulsion from Sunday school for the cruelties of a God who would allow her parents to die and her life to be one of unending misery A deceptively short work Angels Wickedness contrasts the God of Vengeance with the God of Love It is either a statement of absolute faith in the greater plan or a Miltonian subversion of it Angels story is the perfect entry to the surprisingly complex work of the writer who dominated the Victorian era and early 20th century
Corelli lived in the spaces between Even her birth is still shrouded in mystery and was the grandest Romance and Christian writer of her era She outsold Arthur Conan Doyle H G Wells and Rudyard Kipling put together Critics hated her calling her the favourite of the common multitude and she hated them in return A favourite of Winston Churchill Queen Victoria and William Gladstone She was also a lesbian with a her companion of 40 years to whom she left her entire estate and is buried alongside her in a couples grave Her friends included Mark Twain Ouida the Empress Frederick of Germany and Alfred Tennyson while her writing tried to reconcile Christianity with reincarnation and astral projection
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