Eric Mackay
George Eric Mackay (1835 –2 June 1898) was an English minor poet, now remembered as the sponging half-brother of Marie Corelli, the best-selling novelist. Mackay and Corelli, born Mary Mackay, were the children of Charles Mackay, by different mothers (Mary was illegitimate, with Charles marrying her mother subsequently). His first works appeared in periodicals in the early 1860s; he achieved some reputation in his time for Love Letters of a Violinist (1886).
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Eric Mackay
- Died
- 1898 · Kensington.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- poet · writer
- Languages
- English
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George Eric Mackay (1835 –2 June 1898) was an English minor poet, now remembered as the sponging half-brother of Marie Corelli, the best-selling novelist. Mackay and Corelli, born Mary Mackay, were the children of Charles Mackay, by different mothers (Mary was illegitimate, with Charles marrying her mother subsequently). His first works appeared in periodicals in the early 1860s; he achieved some reputation in his time for Love Letters of a Violinist (1886).
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Born at London in 1831, died in Kensington in 1898.
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- 1.Obituaries, such as the one in the New York Times, reported Mackay's birthdate as 25 January 1851, an error repeated by numerous sources since then. Marie Corelli wrote to The Academy to correct the year to 1835. This is also the date given in Marie Corelli, the Writer and the Woman (1903) by Thomas Coates.
- 2.New York Times obituary, 1898.
- 3.17. 250.
- 4.Marie Corelli Collection | Special Collections | Bryn Mawr College Library. www.brynmawr.edu.
- 5.Robyn Hallim. MARIE CORELLI: SCIENCE, SOCIETY AND THE BEST SELLER. University of Sydney Library. 23.
- 6.See, for example, two poems published in Once a Week in 1863
- 7.Philip J. Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870–1918 (2006), p. 467.
- 8.Marie Corelli and her Occult Tales. victorianweb.org.
- 9.File:PMLP53835-Eleanore Op.37 No.6 .pdf - IMSLP: Free Sheet Music PDF Download. imslp.org.
- 10.MacKay, Eric. Highgate Cemetery. Burial Grounds.
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