Marie Corelli melded Victorian ideas of technology, melodrama and the occult into her novels, yet nobody reads her anymore. Queen Victoria awaited her package. The grand matriarch of the era that bore her name was not one for frivolity, but she allowed herself a few pleasures. The parcel that her servant handed her was one of them: a copy of The Sorrows of Satan, the new book by her favorite author, Marie Corelli.