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Today largely forgotten, Marie Corelli was Britain’s best-selling novelist in her heyday, Queen Victoria’s favourite writer and was admired by Oscar Wilde.

Corelli was also known for her unconventional lifestyle. She lived with a woman, Bertha Vyver (1854 – 1941), to whom she left her estate and property in her will. The two women are buried together. Corelli’s house, Mason Croft in Stratford-upon-Avon, is now the home of the Shakespeare Institute.

The first edition of this book, which was a great success at the time, was published in 1886.