Cory, Annie Sophie (1868–1952)
Cory, Annie Sophie (1868–1952)
British novelist. Name variations: (pseudonyms) Victoria Cross; Vivian or Vivien Cory; Victoria Cory; V.C. Griffin; Bal Krishna. Born Oct 1, 1868, in Punjab, India; died Aug 2, 1952, in Milan, Italy; dau. of Arthur and Elizabeth Fanny Griffin Cory; sister of Adela Florence Nicolson (1865–1904, poet).
One of the most outspoken of the New Woman writers, wrote The Woman Who Didn't (1895), A Girl of the Klondike (1899), Anna Lombard (1901), Six Women (1906), Life's Shop-Window (1907), Five Nights (1908), The Life Sentence (1912), Electric Love (1929), A Husband's Holiday (1932) and Jim (1937), among others; her books, celebrated for their treatment of unconventional and exotic themes, have been translated into French, Norwegian and Italian.
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