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Marie Corelli
In my collection of bound volumes of Victorian and Edwardian magazines, I often come across the name of Marie Corelli (1855-1924) — a popular British novelist who "despite the sneers of her critics, always has something to say worth saying" (in the words of an editorial in the London Magazine, in which her essay, Swagger Religion-
ists, first appeared in 1912). She certainly has a good turn of phrase, as in "...that flagrant assumption of easy familiarity with the Deity which unfortunately vulgarises almost every formula of the Christian faith..." She is buried in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, close to where I grew up.
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