Centenary conference and forthcoming publication considering the work and cultural legacy of Marie Corelli. Account run by @EllieCDobson and @coppertapestry
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Our conference report is now available to read - including a summary of the wider weekend. Sending heartfelt thanks to all our brilliant presenters and chairs, and the wonderful staff at @ShakesInstitute for hosting us #Corelli100 commemoratingcorelli.wordpre…
Today’s the day! It’s all coming together very nicely, but there’s still time to submit an abstract to us - do take a look at our CFP! (we thought about dialling down the exclamation marks in this post but it’s so very Corelli!).
CFP DEADLINE TODAY: THE WORK AND CULTURAL INFLUENCE OF MARIE CORELLI victorianist.wordpress.com/2……
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Amazing time today at @UniofHertshe Festival of Ideas! Re-connected with @UHLiterature staff who nurtured me through my Masters (@hughes_rowland), & was inspired by female comedy icon @HelenLederer - especially as I was once an anonymous reviewer for her amazing UH @CWIPprize!
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Nuestra IP @rosarioariasUMA presenta "Género, botánica y arte del pasado en el ensamblaje literario anglófono del siglo XXI" en el VI Seminario 'Mujer y Humanidades (Igualdad de Género, Cultura e Investigación)' de @LetrasUma.
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In #NoMowMay are your wildflowers thriving like Prince Hal?
And so the prince obscured his contemplation
Under the veil of wildness; which, no doubt,
Grew like the summer grass, fastest by night,
Henry V (1. 1)
ALT Photo of long grass and wildflowers.
Conference friends! In case you missed this over the weekend, Jo’s initial discoveries of Marie Corelli as ‘Rosalind’ have been published, open access. They formed part of the paper jointly presented with @DrSarahParker in our #Corelli100 panel on readerships and form. Enjoy! 😊
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Our friends at @BAVS_PGs have kindly posted our VERY EXCITING publication CFP. Do take a look! The centenary celebration continues… #Corelli100
CFP (PUBLICATION): THE WORK AND CULTURAL INFLUENCE OF MARIE CORELLI victorianist.wordpress.com/2… @Corelli100
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Thank you Maureen for this generous donation to our #archives. We are pleased to keep adding to our collection of texts and related materials by & about popular writers and culture for @MCCatLJMU researchers. @unibirmingham @Corelli100 @LJMU_SCA 📚📃📖
Our panel on Readerships and Form, is chaired by Maureen Bell, of @unibirmingham (who co-organised the Corelli conference in 2006). Maureen’s impressive Corelli collection was recently donated to the @MCCatLJMU archives for future Corellians to enjoy. archives.ljmu.ac.uk/Record.a…
We’re enjoying Nick Birch, of the Stratford Society, sharing his expertise on Corelli and the town, in the lovely Town Hall venue!
We’ve had an emotional time hearing the first performance of Corelli’s long-unheard compositions (sourced by @Coppertapestry ) and visited the Harvard House Corelli exhibit. And… we met MARIE!!!
We’re now listening to the dramatic reading of ‘The Sorrows of Satan’ - bravo to the Stratford Society for a brilliant commemorative programme. It’s been a wonderful weekend! #Corelli100
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Loving these replies by @MarieCorelli - so characteristic of Corelli's sparkling wit. On a serious note, incredible centenary conference organized yesterday @Corelli100. I learnt SO very much, all in a day!
MacLeod is showing us copies of the publication of the story and discussing its different context within the pages of Nash’s and Hearst’s magazines. She is enthralling us with explanations of illustrations and how the story is interpreted differently between US and UK issues.
MacLeod explains how Corelli (after previously denouncing the mode) serialised her later novel ‘The Young Diana’ in US owned magazines.
We are delighted to welcome our keynote speaker, Dr Kirsten MacLeod of @NCL_English to #Corelli100. The doors to Mason Croft have been opened to the public and everyone is excited to hear her paper, and brand new work on “Mass-Market Marie: Corelli and the Hearst Magazine Empire”
What a fantastic session! We’ve loved every minute. We wish to thank alll our wonderful #Corelli100 chairs and presenters for their contributions to the day. We’re off now for afternoon tea (it’s what Marie would have wanted!) before settling down for the keynote speech at 5pm.
Neil considers ‘Ardath’ and its references to apocryphal text, Esdras, as Corelli engaging with ‘marginalised truth from the past’, seeing its apocalyptic content as apt for a late c19th readership. Neil says Corelli, as literary outsider, positions her own novels as apocryphal.
Last but, most certainly, not least, is @ProfNeilH , joining us early morning, his time, from California State University, Long Beach @CSULB with his paper on ‘Corelli, Apocrypha, Apocalypse’. #Corelli100
Alexander says ‘Barabbas theorises and cultivates the capacity to “dream by day” to encourage its readers to overcome failures of imagination’, implying the aesthetics of Corelli’s writing on dreaming and dreams (within the titular dream) enables the ‘pursuit of ultimate reality’
The third paper in this panel, is by Alexander Lynch of @TrinityCollege Cambridge. Alex is presenting '"His dreamful face drooped downward": Dreaming of Christ in Corelli's Barabbas’. #Corelli100