We’re ashamed to say we didn’t know who Marie Corelli was, so we looked her up, and Wikipedia gave us this:  “Marie Corelli:  (1 May 1855 – 21 April 1924) was a British novelist. She enjoyed a period of great literary success from the publication of her first novel in 1886 until World War I. Corelli’s novels sold more copies than the combined sales of popular contemporaries, including Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, and Rudyard Kipling, although critics often derided her work as ‘the favourite of the common multitude’.”  We guess that’s what makes novels popular.  The card was mailed–the writer dated the message as July 29, 1912 but the postmark suggests 1920 unless the 0 is a C.  Either way, the stamp is there and it’s an old postcard.  Grade: 1