“Put together the talents of all your critics, and ask them to paint the city of Al-Kyris. That came out of a finely sustained vision, your intense interest in your subject keeping it at a white heat. I reckon two-thirds of ‘Ardath’ as one of the finest contributions to imaginative literature which this country possesses.
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“Never write a line if the humor is not in you. It is that impulsion to write because you can’t help it, which carries you away, and, for that reason, carries away your reader.”
What Becomes of the Press Cuttings
Marie Corelli’s Pet Yorkshire Terrier “Czar"
“August 29th, 1892.
“Mille felicitations! Thelma, I hope you will keep a diary, which, though it will not be published in my day, and I shan’t read it, will some day give interesting glimpses into the social life of this last decade of the nineteenth century.