Annie Sophie Cory

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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, the third of three daughters to Colonel Arthur Cory and his wife Fanny Elizabeth Griffin. 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 the editor of the Lahore regional section of The Civil and Military Gazette . Arthur Cory was also the one who certainly got Rudyard Kipling , his daughter's contemporaneous, his first job as a journalist . Annie Sophie Cory published her first work Theodora, a Fragment in Yellow Book in 1895. In the same year she wrote The Woman Who Didn't , an answer to Grant Allen's work The Woman Who Did .

Cory remained unmarried and after the death of her father she toured the Indian continent with a male friend (possibly an uncle) who was a jeweler. After his death, she settled in Monte Carlo , where she lived with friends. Her next younger sister, Adela Florence Nicolson , became famous as the author of exotic Indian poetry under the pseudonym Laurence Hope .

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

Works

  • The Woman Who Didn't (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)

literature

  • Gail Cunningham: The New Woman and the Victorian Novel . London, Macmillan 1978

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stephanie Forward: sv "Victoria Cross (e)". The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English, ed.Lorna Sage (CUP: Cambridge, 1999).
personal data
SURNAME Cory, Annie Sophie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cross, Victoria (pseudonym); Crosse, Victoria (pseudonym); Cory, Vivian (pen name); Griffin, VC (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Stoke Bishop , Gloucestershire , United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH 2nd August 1952
Place of death Monte Carlo , Monaco