MARIE CORELLI.
Sir,-I regret very much feeling compelled to write a protest concerning a talk from 1YA, Mainly About Books, in which John Reid discussed the "Vanity of Marie Corelli." I have never felt the air so thick with spite against anyone and was aghast at the pettiness which
was unmistakable. I remember Marie Corelli in my youth, and I knew there was much talk about her and conflict of opinion and also remember hearing that she had been ex-communicated by the Catholic Church. Surely it would be kinder if, as Mr. Reid stated, all her books with her personality and the memory of her were so dead that it proved how little she mattered, to have left her R.I.P. instead of digging up the allegedly vain woman to vilify her over the air. I seemed to feel the Bell, Book, and Candle in the denunciation, and it surely could serve no purpose in the present to treat the memory of a dead authoress so spitefully-especially when such a
| RaeneneneeeS --a ond | book as Encyclopaedia Britannica has something very different to say about her. It states that Marie Corelli wrote "sincerely of the times in which she lived." We may well hide from the truth in years to come. If higher education does not teach us tolerance and understanding with broader outlook, of what use is it?
KIT CRESSWELL
(Mt. Eden).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 503, 11 February 1949, Page 5
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