The title of her talk is Corelli’s Designing Fictions: Fashioning the Woman of Genius. Marie Corelli was one of Britain’s most popular novelists. Her celebrity, paired with late 19th century technological advancements, launched her onto the public stage; and, her role as an outspoken woman writer within the male dominated literary world, made her a controversial figure. Jones’s presentation will explore the ways in which Marie Corelli’s fiction examines and reimagines gender biases within the masculine space of the published world.