CORELLI, MARIE (1855-1924), English novelist, was the daughter of Dr. Charles Mackay (q.v.) the song-writer and jour nalist, and his second wife, formerly Mary Elizabeth Mills. She was sent to be educated in a French convent with the object of training her for the musical profession. She became suddenly famous in 1886 with the publication of her brilliant and fantastic Romance of Two W orlds. She then wrote in succession a series of melodramatic romantic novels which had an enormous vogue; these were Vendetta (1886), Thelma (1887), Ardath 0889), The Soul of Lilith (1892), Barabbas (1893), The Sorrows of Satan (1895), The Mighty Atom (1896), and others, down to The Master Christian 09oo), and Temporal Power (1902). Her later books were less successful. Marie Corelli wrote quite sin cerely and with conviction, if in bad style. Her later years were spent at Stratford-on-Avon, where she died on April 24, 1924