THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS," WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18TH, 1924
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MARIE CORELLI.`
A PERSONAL MEMOIR
Mr. T. P. O'Connor writes in the Thi
| Teleyenphi~-
One of the first mea 1 mt of any im. portance in London was Charles Mackay, le was at the Reform Club, and 1 was in- trodused to him by a fellow townsman who had sequipod-walth hud high position in Uulumtes, and who majet my father Mit for cutisistent support at 我 time
disloyalty spoiled his changes
of a Parlamentary curver. I tenienber Mackay wela shor,
stantesh, vel facsi man with a vertain bitterness in his. talk. though to the tumbling youngster. who had just embarked on the tempestuous seas of London literary life he was kind. nes itself. 'shouki here interpolate; for a generation that has forgotten Machay. that he was the author c
Cheer boys, cheer and To the Wish
to the West, to the Land of the Fren --songs,
AT male, & great appeal to the prople art a time when the great comntry across the was just beginning to reveal it. "um for those who conditions too hard and too un- promising as home, Charles Mackay had ason, who inherited sand pyon surpassed Some of the portie gifts of his father; and this on played an important, though a somewhat mysterous, part in the life of „Mario Corelli,
She was of Italian and Senttish parent- age, and was adoptel, in infancy by Charles Mackay, with whom she lived in the closest intimacy, awl, as it
appeared.
in the most warm affiction. Eric waya little like his father-short, stoutish. ruddly-fuetud. He huch even more than the usual shang of the irritahvlity and accountability of the race of ports to which he belonged. I have recries arith for a week or a fortnight two letter from
him in reformes to paragraph appeared about him in a paper of
th
11
I was editor at the time the first would denguses nie san smitigated scoundrel, and, above all,
A ne gentleann; and the sword would baik me as the best of friends most perfect of gentlemen. So ap. parent was his talent that a gocal many prople were strongly under the impression that the book of Marie Curelli, with their astounding success, were due largely to his inspiration. if not actually to his pen. This well-spread rumone played an important part in a subs gaent à pésale in her career.
Maria Corelli was probably a writer from her earliest dayso printers ink was in hep vrius, although probably, she sum pected as little as anybody else the extra ordinary sugros she was ultimately to attain. Wh her first important work, A Romance of Two World fame en
to her with a rash. The public, both in
Engand and Amer les lahe buck:
it baum a bust
old by the i
• teus of thousands, and went into one ad-
of the
tion after the other with lighting rapidity. I cannor jack By: I found it always impossible to wad Magic Corelli: but probably alat i woubt have considurst, the defects of her stylinflation of language, remantle in- rent on vend all probability, /ber. tain mingling of
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at org. From that time forward every Borel of Marie Corelli immediately became a gigantle scene: she could enmand almost any price she demanded, and those kifat in such calculations estimate that the value to each novel sh with at least £10,000.
write
"to the Straitfard shrine. Now and then her strong feeling overflowed when to- pics outside literature were exercising the public mind and she wrote trenchantly on all such subjects with more vehemenca than reason. When Brie Mackay ded there came an episode which is almost in- credible. Marie" Corelli issued a short "One would have thought that such pamphlet in which he spoke very diapura- gigantic and perhaps such expected gingly of him, charging him among other sic bringing A Want things with having made a fal claim to poverty to great wealth, would have propart authorship of her books. It was a duced a very soft and satisfied character.
said But this did not happen a painful episode and perhaps the
about it. the better. after he had already achieved some of
le-s
Th
"Each then was this little wounded
Fuit of herself,
her early and brilliant successes Shring with was welcome, of course, at semi-literary with extraordinars and disproportion. gatherings, and a very pretty figure she ate bonours and
made. If you had expected to inmet a tall bundle, rest posterity and yet dis
Quarrelsome just that lank lady, with spectacies and blue stock bundle of contradictions between onter ings you had a pleasant surprise when you and inner life, between varying methods met her in those days of the rightis audi which make up the problem and the per- the nineties. She had a small, well proplexity of buman character and human portioned figure abundant clusters of existence. fair hair, rosy, cheeks, lightish blur yes, gad very small and dainty features. If I wanted to describe her singin French word I would call her mignonne: what did en her, as a matter of fact. was a beautiful little bit of Dresden china. Th compliment was shoessful be yone
al expectation. for it was constantly quoted in those articles about herdf which were circulated with the genius of a publicity agent, bet always, with the denial of any impulse er authorship from ber- vatement that was generally received with a sceptical smile,
In the far-off days she was agreeable
little young ladyish but not disagree able, In time the qualities seemed to be obscured. It was have been that she had some disappointment to her intimate it may be that she fretted littlo under the lack of rrecgnition which she found among the niore encant men of icers, who did hot usually respond to the echoes, however loud, of the general mass of readers: it may have been that irritability of temper which is not un known in
in her x when it has not been subjected to the marriage and mating influences
Qae should, however, make allowance for poor health. For
years she suffered from i severo in- pal nalady and. in bearing the tortures of disease and then in facing the perils of a severe operation she revealed those inner depths of courage which her sex. so often displays She insisted on post. poning an operation until she had finished 4 contract with publisher, and then when the operation came she chose one of her own sex to perform it and sho faced the operating table with the ageous and unselfish observation that if Anything went wrong the blame must be put ca her not on the operator.
Towards
cour-
of Love the book the BULSE.
her foot and settled down
in & comfortable cottage in Stratford-on- Avon. Doubtless she sought pence but sha did not find it, for the public were pretty frequently made aware of altercations be tween her and local authorities and she fought these quarrels with a certain shrillness of tome. On the other hand. The doubtless fast & artais degree of satisfaction in the connection of her name with that of the greatest of Englishmen (Continued on next column.)
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