. Marie Corelli : the writer and the woman. on heropinions, judging from the questions they askof her, and the urgency with which they press foran answer. During the South African War, representatives ofall ranks at the front kept her informed of all thatwas going on, batches of letters reaching her from**fighting men who were personally utter stran-gers to her, and whose names she had never gallant Lord Dundonald, who has long been afriend of hers, found time to write her one ofthe first letters that left his pen after he enteredLadysmith. And this kind of general confidence inher f
. Marie Corelli : the writer and the woman. on heropinions, judging from the questions they askof her, and the urgency with which they press foran answer. During the South African War, representatives ofall ranks at the front kept her informed of all thatwas going on, batches of letters reaching her from**fighting men who were personally utter stran-gers to her, and whose names she had never gallant Lord Dundonald, who has long been afriend of hers, found time to write her one ofthe first letters that left his pen after he enteredLadysmith. And this kind of general confidence inher friendship runs all along the line. No one whohas known her once seems inclined to forget her,while those who have really read her books becomeher friends without any personal knowledge of her. At Stratford this celebrated novelist lives a veryquiet life. Of course she cannot escape the atten-tions of the curious, for Fame has its penalties; theStratford cabmen, taking visitors round the oldtown, often pull up opposite Mason Croft to allow. Miss Corellis Boatman and Punt At Stratford-on-Avon 347 their fares to gaze upon the residence of the popularwriter. Sometimes her admirers, although absolutestrangers, venture to call upon her; but there is anastute and diplomatic butler at Mason Croft whotakes very good care that his mistress is not un-necessarily disturbed when she is working. It is this resolute working of hers that—coupledwith her extraordinary gifts—has made the name ofMarie Corelli one to conjure with. Week in, weekout, she toils at her desk for several hours everymorning, and it is by such methods of regularityand application that she has succeeded in writingsuch long, as well as such successful, novels. The following sketch, contributed to the Man-chester Chronicle last surhmer by the editor, Mr. Walters, affords a very complete picture ofMarie Corelli as she is to-day:— In the old-world town of Stratford-on-Avonstands an Elizabethan red-brick house, i
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