Marie Corelli was a best-selling English author of more than 20 romantic melodramatic novels. Andrew Radford is Senior Lecturer in Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK. His books include The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism, Myth and Religion (co-edited with Suzanne Hobson, 2023), British Experimental Women’s Fiction, 1945–1975 (co-edited with Hannah Van Hove, 2021), The Occult Imagination in Britain 1875–1947 (co-edited with Christine Ferguson, 2018), Mary Butts and British Neo-Romanticism (2014) and Mapping the Wessex Novel (2010). He has recently published a critical edition of George Borrow’s autobiographical novel Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest with Edinburgh University Press (2023).

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• AcknowledgementsSeries Editor’s PrefaceIntroductionA Note on the TextFurther ReadingA Romance of Two Worlds. A NovelVolume IPrologue I. An Artist’s Studio II. The Mysterious Potion III. Three Visions IV. A Dance and a Promise V. Cellini’s Story VI. The Hotel Mars and its Owner VII. Zara and Prince Ivan VIII. A Symphony in the Air IX. An Electric Shock Volume III. My Strange DepartureII. A Miniature CreationIII. Secrets of the Sun and MoonIV. Sociable ConverseV. The Electric CreedVI. Death by LightningVII. The Struggle for the MasteryVIII. ConclusionAppendices

Marie Corelli was a best-selling English author of more than 20 romantic melodramatic novels. Andrew Radford is Senior Lecturer in Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK. His books include The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism, Myth and Religion (co-edited with Suzanne Hobson, 2023), British Experimental Women’s Fiction, 1945–1975 (co-edited with Hannah Van Hove, 2021), The Occult Imagination in Britain 1875–1947 (co-edited with Christine Ferguson, 2018), Mary Butts and British Neo-Romanticism (2014) and Mapping the Wessex Novel (2010). He has recently published a critical edition of George Borrow’s autobiographical novel Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest with Edinburgh University Press (2023).

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• AcknowledgementsSeries Editor’s PrefaceIntroductionA Note on the TextFurther ReadingA Romance of Two Worlds. A NovelVolume IPrologue I. An Artist’s Studio II. The Mysterious Potion III. Three Visions IV. A Dance and a Promise V. Cellini’s Story VI. The Hotel Mars and its Owner VII. Zara and Prince Ivan VIII. A Symphony in the Air IX. An Electric Shock Volume III. My Strange DepartureII. A Miniature CreationIII. Secrets of the Sun and MoonIV. Sociable ConverseV. The Electric CreedVI. Death by LightningVII. The Struggle for the MasteryVIII. ConclusionAppendices