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The Mysterious Miss Marie Corelli


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Marie Corelli dined with the Prince of Wales, entertained Sarah Bernhardt and split Stratford into warring factions, but she seems to have invented her own past. The bestselling novelist of her age, she blazed into fame from nothing.







Douglas Jerrold


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First biography of one of the founding members of Punch set against Victorian theatre life.




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Reading Virginia Woolf's Essays and Journalism


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"This, the first book to deal solely with Virginia Woolf's non-fiction writing from a historical and theoretical perspective, covers comprehensively and in detail Woolf's essays and journalism including the juvenilia, reviews, critical essays, autobiographical writings, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas." -- Publisher's website