Annie Sophie Cory

Annie Sophie Cory ( born October 1, 1868 in Stoke Bishop, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom, † August 2, 1952 in Monte Carlo, Monaco) was an English writer of popular, passionate, exotic novels under the pseudonyms Victoria Cross ( e), Vivian Cory and VC Griffin.

Life

She was born on October 1, 1868 as the third of three daughters of Colonel Arthur Cory and Fanny Elizabeth Griffin his wife. The father was stationed with the British Army in Lahore, so she grew up in India, but completed her training in England. Her father was editor of the Lahore Regional part of The Civil and Military Gazette. Arthur Cory was also the one who gave certainly Rudyard Kipling, a peers of his daughter, his first job as a journalist. Annie Sophie Cory published her first work of Theodora, a fragment in the Yellow Book 1895. During the same year, she wrote The Woman Who Did not, answer Grant Allen's The Woman Who Did work.

Cory never married and after her father's death she traveled to the Indian continent along with a male friend (perhaps an uncle ) who acted with jewels. After his death she settled in Monte Carlo, where they lived with friends. Your next younger sister, Adela Florence Nicolson, became famous as the author of exotic Indian poems under the pseudonym Laurence Hope.

Annie Sophie Cory is one of the literary ideals of feminist New Woman type.

Works

  • The Woman Who Did (1895, original title: Consummation; renamed by John Lane for his keynote series in response to Grant Allen's The Woman Who Did )
  • Paula (1896 )
  • A Girl of the Klondike (1899 )
  • Anna Lombard ( 1901)
  • Six Chapters of a Man 's Life (1903 )
  • To- morrow? (1904 )
  • The Religion of Evelyn Hastings ( 1905)
  • Life of My Heart ( 1905)
  • Six Women (1906 )
  • Life's Shop Window (1907 )
  • Five Nights (1908 )
  • 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)
  • 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 )
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