Word: delicias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Marie Corelli, 60, at Stratford-on-Avon; author of best sellers for 40 years: The Sorrows of Satan, The Murder of Delicia, Problem of a Wicked Soul, God's Good Man, The Devil's Motor, The Secret Power, etc., etc. She was of mixed Italian and Scotch Highland blood, was adopted in infancy by Charles Mackay, famed song writer, who afterwards sent her to a French convent to be educated. Queen Victoria admired her work; Tennyson wrote her a letter of encouragement...
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