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"MARTE CORELEI.
Marie Corelli, the most famous woman author of the day, is practically unknown, so far as her personality is concerned. With exception of one or two faked interviews and the circulation of a preposterous cartoon, by an avowed enemy of hers, so little is known in America about Marie Corelli that she may as well have dwelt in a safe deposit vault in Lasse, the forbidden city of the East, feel
groups of people standing, out in the street merely gazing up, at the house. They must find some pleasure in it or they wouldn't do it; | but it seems so funny!
“Now and then a venturesome admirer will ring the ball and offer my butter half a crown (60 cents) to stand inside the ball for minute! wouldn't say he has always refused the bribe, but he often has. One cannot help being amused at such a form of hero-or shall I say heroine-worship. Though I am) aurasit is all
DRAWBACKS OF OLORY.
"But," she continued, rather sadly, "among the drawbacks is the grudge some people seem to bear me for having learned the right to live. Constant misrepresentation and downright cal- many are so often my portion that I have censed to care about it now.
For years she has shunned the avowed inter-meant kindly." viewer. The camera has been an abomination in bagsight. Up to this time a few tiny photo. graphs taken by a friend with a kodak years ago were the only photographs of Miss Corelli in existence. With the exception of a very fine portrait, painred by the well-known artist, Ellis Robens, for himself, and in the artist's own possession, and a full-length painting by Mit Donald Smith, which hangs on the wall of the fine old Tudor oak staircase in Miss Corelli's home at firatford-on-Avon, the pic tures which accompany this article are the [1121 photographs for which the authoress has ever
sat. She has been persuaded to have these, taken rather than allow the libellous caricature which has recently been circulated in America (through her opponents of the "Shakepeara Birthplace Trust", to go uncontradicted.
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SHE IS NOT PERSUADABLE. So many erroneous and damaging things have appeared recently with reference to the distinguished authoress that the writer of this article has at last persuaded Miss Corelli to grant an interview which would afford the public a correct idea of one who, up to this time, has been known only through her books. Miss Corelli is not a very persuadable person, when it comes to interviews.
She is a rapid and easy talker on every topic but one-herself. Extracting information from her on that point is like drawing out leviathan with an hook.
"But what. I regret is that in America especially they accept their information about me in the press from their London correspond- ents, not one of whom has ever seen me, except just now yourself. These gentlemen take on their impressions from hearsay, which they never attempt to verify."
"You bear no very good feeling toward, the press, perhaps m
"Ah, the old story, cropping up again," she said laughing. Please don't make such a mistake as to report that I dislike journalists.
"I have ever so many good friends on the press, men of sterling worth and ability, and I have no grudge whatever against my enemies there.
"When I first began my career as quite a young girl, I did feel it hard to contend with so much abure and vituperative language-and a kind word would have helped me more than I can say. But I don't care now. I have too big a public to care.”
LETTERS FROM AMERICA.
"You have many correspondents, I believe? Strangers write to you from all parts of the
A few words about Miss Corelli's surround. † world?" ings and personality. She lives in an old
"Oh, yes, such kind and cheering letters, too, manor house--Mason Croft-at Stratford-on.eap cially from America and India. Two or Avon, it is a sixteenth century house and three of my books have been translated into retains its Elizabethan gables at the back. Its Hindustani-Barrabas' for instance-and 1 antiquity may be imagined from the fact that a get many letters from native persone who 'Temporal Power!
"manar fee" of eight shillings-or 52-imposed
in the time of Charles II. upon the house bas still to be paid to the present King.
THE KING ADMIRES HER,
appear to read them.
y last novel, has been translated into Japanese-that seems very odd! But I bear it is quite a favourite book with The interior of Mason Croft in furnished in the japs-or was, till the war broke out. They exquisite taste. Miss Corelli bas surrounded are busy with their own temporal power' just herself with all that the artistic temperament now! could wish for. There are beautiful pieces "Here is a letter I got the other day from a of antique furniture dating back to Shakes.girl in Devonshire-quite a stranger."" peare's time; rare books of great value; Miss Corelli produced from her table drawer paintings, prints and engravings satisfy both a letter written by a simple country girl living the eye and the mind,
in the west of England, who thanked the authoress for having written her book "Ardath," which, she stated, had helped her in her outlank on life. Miss Corelli receives many such letters and invariably answers them with en- couraging words.
In Win Corelli's drawing room-au extreme- ly cheerful apartment--is a large photograph of King Edward, presented to Miss Corelli by the King himself and bearing his Majesty's autograph.
"Say something about your "early life-first. impressions-were you a girlish, or a boyish,
The King, by the way, is a great admirer of her works, and takes the trouble to sound her praises on all occasions. When "Barrabas" | girl?" was published in 1893, the King-then Prince of Wales-went about asking his friends; Have you read Miss Corelli's 'Barrabas?'” which, doubtless, did not do the book any harin.
In the Corelli home taste, luxory and wealth are combined very happily, everything being in perfect keeping. As you see all this goodly gear:
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"Thoroughly girlish," she answered with animation. "I loved my dolls to distraction, and used to create characters for them and build up all sorts of romances around them. In fact they were almost my only companions. I bad no child playmates.
KNEW CHARLES DICKENS.
"I spent all my time with the only father I'
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Mackay, who adopted me in infancy. With the exception of lessons in music from a daily governess, he taught me everything. He used to make me learn poetry by heart, and when I was about seven he would make me recite, all sorts of famous pieces, even to the soliloquy in Hamlet, which I used to 'declaim,' so ha told me, very tragically, for the amusement of himself and his friends.
"He was intimate with Charles Dickens and opens into a winter warden whore roses and Bulwer Lytton and used to tell me many stories lillies and even lilac and labpropm bloom all about them. He always encouraged me in the the year around. She is a skilled musician,dy, of Shakespeare, and at twelve years old playing the piano and mandolin with equal case, and the is quits renowned among her intimate friends for her voice and the way she renders the national ballade and "folk songs" of various peoples.
She is not, as has been often reported of her, irritated or seriously put out by the various attacks made uppo her.
"I have too much to do,” the says, "10 mind them,"
The repulsive caricature which was circulat
koew every character in every play, and could give any quotation its place.”
"When did you begin to write anything for publication ?*
"Some little verses of mine were published when I was about fourteen. But I never thought of living by my pan. I was intended for a musical career, and it'was only when i returned from a two years training in a French convent that I learned it would be necessary to
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do something to help my daar adopted father, For a small additional annual charge Desk ad broadcast by her enemies, after her action | who was seriously ill and unable to work as
for libel at Birmingham law courts, amused | strenuously as ba had done.
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The offensive letterpress which in more than one instance accompanied the cartoon in its carcar through some of the American: papers she admitted to be rather trying.
Miss Corelli displays good taste in dress, i combined with simplicity and economy. In „ber dwa bouse the weam very simpla gown, made after the Greek models, in various pale
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does not care for jewels and seldom wears asy. Her hair is of the true light golden, so rarely seen and most difficult to photograph; she dresses it simply, its natural waves being draws loosely back from the temples and
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