Marie Corelli

Marie Corelli (* as Mary Mackay, 1st May 1855 in London, † April 21, 1924 in Stratford- upon- Avon, also known as Minnie Mackay ) was a British occultist and writer.

Life

Mary Mackay was the illegitimate daughter of the Scottish poet and composer Charles Mackay and his servant, Elizabeth Mills. 1866, the young girl was placed in a Parisian convent for education and was allowed to return only after four years for the first time in their home.

Cinematic adaptations

Some of her works was filmed in the silent era of the 1920s:

Her life was the inspiration for the movie Angel - A life like in a dream (Original title: Angel ) by François Ozon in 2007 wrote the screenplay Martin Crimp and ozone itself based on the novel by the British writer Elizabeth Taylor ( 1957), the. for its part, based on the biography of Marie Corelli.