Annie Sophie Cory

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Annie Sophie Cory (October 1, 1868—August 2, 1952) was the author of popular, racy, exotic novels under the pseudonyms Victoria Cross(e) [1], Vivian Cory and V.C. Griffin.

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[edit] Life

She was born as the third of three daughters to Colonel Arthur Cory and Fanny Elizabeth Griffin. Her father was employed in the British army at Lahore, and Annie Sophie Cory grew up in India. She never married, and after her father's death she travelled, finally settling in Monte Carlo to live with female friends.

One of her sisters, Adela Florence Nicolson, became famous as the exotic poet "Laurence Hope."

[edit] Novels [2]

Cover of the first edition of The Woman Who Didn't
Cover of the first edition of The Woman Who Didn't
  • The Woman Who Didn't (1895; original title: Consummation; retitled by John Lane for his Keynote series as a response to Grant Allen's The Woman Who Did) [1]
  • Paula (1896)
  • A Girl of the Klondike (1899)
  • Anna Lombard (1901) [2]
  • Six Chapters of a Man's Life (1903)
  • To-morrow? (1904) [3]
  • The Religion of Evelyn Hastings (1905)
  • Life of My Heart (1905)
  • Six Women (1906) [4]
  • Life's Shop-Window (1907)
  • Five Nights (1908) [5]
  • The Eternal Fires (1910)
  • The Love of Kusuma (1910)
  • Self and the Other (1911)
  • The Life Sentence (1912)
  • The Night of Temptation (1912)
  • The Greater Law (aka Hilda Against The World) (1914)
  • Daughters of Heaven (short stories, 1920) [6]
  • Over Life's Edge (1921)
  • The Beating Heart (1924)
  • Electric Love (1929)
  • The Unconscious Sinner (aka The Innocent Sinner) (1931)
  • A Husband's Holiday (1932)
  • The Girl in the Studio (1934)
  • Martha Brown, MP (1935)
  • Jim (1937)

[edit] References

  • Gail Cunningham: The New Woman and the Victorian Novel (Macmillan: London, 1978).
  • Stephanie Forward: s.v. "Victoria Cross(e)". The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English, ed. Lorna Sage (CUP: Cambridge, 1999).

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[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ She dropped the 'e' from her name after Queen Victoria's death in 1901.
  2. ^ Taken from http://www.authorandbookinfo.com/ngcoba/co3.htm.