Editing Marie Corelli (section)

==Legacy==
Corelli is generally accepted to have been the inspiration for at least two of [[E. F. Benson]]'s characters in his [[Mapp and Lucia (novel series)|Lucia series]] of six novels and a short story.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Masters |first1=Brian |title=The Life of E. F. Benson |date=1991 |publisher=Chatto & Windus |isbn=978-0701135669 |pages=237–238 |url=https://archive.org/details/lifeofefbenson00mast/page/236/mode/2up |access-date=1 November 2020}}</ref>

A modern critic has written that Corelli was probably also the inspiration for "Rita's" ([[Eliza Humphreys]]'s) main character in ''Diana of the Ephesians'', which was published a year before E. F. Benson's first Lucia novel, and had been rejected by Hutchinson, which later published the "Lucia" Lucas novels.<ref>''"Rita" The Forgotten Author''. By Paul Jones L.R.P.S.</ref>

In Chapter III of [[Bruce Marshall (writer)|Bruce Marshall]]'s ''[[The World, the Flesh and Father Smith]]'', the protagonist – a Catholic priest – is in hospital, recovering from a wound.  A nurse gives him a copy of Marie Corelli's ''Temporal Power'', with the hope that the book would convert him to Protestantism. However, Father Smith finds the book "stupid and flamboyant", puts it aside and prays for Corelli, since "she really ought to have known better".

In 2007, the British film ''[[Angel (2007 film)|Angel]]'', based on a book by [[Elizabeth Taylor (novelist)|Elizabeth Taylor]], was released as a thinly-veiled biography of Corelli. The film starred [[Romola Garai]] in the Corelli role and also starred [[Sam Neill]] and [[Charlotte Rampling]]. It was directed by [[François Ozon]], who stated, "The character of Angel was inspired by Marie Corelli, a contemporary of [[Oscar Wilde]] and [[Queen Victoria]]'s favourite writer. Corelli was one of the first writers to become a star, writing bestsellers for an adoring public. Today she has been largely forgotten, even in England."<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.francois-ozon.com/en/interviews-angel | title=Interviews about Angel: François Ozon – Romola Garai – Michael Fassbender | publisher=François Ozon | access-date=4 March 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403171350/http://www.francois-ozon.com/en/interviews-angel | archive-date=3 April 2015 | url-status=dead }}</ref>