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Annie Sophie Cory was the author of popular, racy, exotic novels under the pseudonyms Victoria Cross(e) , Vivian Cory and V.C. Griffin.

Life

She was born as the third of three daughters to ColonelColonel

Colonel is a military rank of a commissioned officer, with the corresponding ranks existing in nearly every country in the w...
 Arthur Cory and Fanny Elizabeth Griffin. Her father was employed in the British army at LahoreLahore

Lahore is the second largest city of Pakistan and is the capital of the province of Punjab....
, and Annie Sophie Cory grew up in India. She never married, and after her father's death she travelled, finally settling in Monte CarloMonte Carlo

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 to live with female friends.

One of her sisters, Adela Florence NicolsonAdela Florence Nicolson

Adela Florence Nicolson was an English poet who wrote under the pseudonym Laurence Hope....
, became famous as the exotic poet "Laurence Hope."

Novels

  • The Woman Who Didn't|John Lane]] for his Keynote series as a response to Grant AllenGrant Allen

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  • Paula
  • A Girl of the Klondike
  • Anna LombardAnna Lombard

    Anna Lombard is a New Woman novel by Annie Sophie Cory writing as Victoria Cross....
  • Six Chapters of a Man's Life
  • To-morrow?
  • The Religion of Evelyn Hastings
  • Life of My Heart
  • Six Women
  • Life's Shop-Window
  • Five Nights
  • The Eternal Fires
  • The Love of Kusuma
  • Self and the Other
  • The Life Sentence
  • The Night of Temptation
  • The Greater Law (aka Hilda Against The World)
  • Daughters of Heaven (short stories, 19201920 in literature

    See also: 1919 in literature, other events of 1920, 1921 in literature, List of years in literature....
    )
  • Over Life's Edge
  • The Beating Heart
  • Electric Love
  • The Unconscious Sinner (aka The Innocent Sinner)
  • A Husband's Holiday
  • The Girl in the Studio
  • Martha Brown, MP
  • Jim

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