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George Eric Mackay (1851-1898) 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 Charles Mackay - LoveToKnow 1911, by different mothers (Mary was illegitimate, with Charles marrying her mother subsequently Marie Corelli Collection | Special Collections | Bryn Mawr College Library).

As a poet he is described as "execrable", and reliant on Corelli's promotion of his works. Mackay achieved some reputation in his time for Letters of a Violinist (1886). It sold 35,000 copies; he repaid Corelli's efforts by implying he wrote her novels.

A 1940 biography of Corelli, George Bullock's Marie Corelli: The Life and Death of a Best-Seller, hinted that the relationship was incestuous; this has generally been discounted, though Eric's laziness and lack of scruples are acknowledged.. This was an old rumour, attributed to Edmund Gosse Marie Corelli and her Occult Tales.

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