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While on the subject of Marie Corelli, her choice of the name Mavis Clare for the character in the novel mentioned provoked her critics to see Mavis as a self-portrait, as they thought the initials MC corresponded perfectly to those of the authoress. Do consider other such names in Corelli's novels, especially those of the Chaldean characters she keeps introducing in them, such as Heliobas, Prince Lucio Rimanez in The Sorrows of Satan (Lucio , light, Rimanez, Ahriman), etc.