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G. (George) Norway
Best known by the pen name G. Norway, this Victorian writer turned personal loss into a late-blooming fiction career. Her stories for young readers often mix adventure, history, and a strong sense of place, especially Cornwall.
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Ralph Denham's Adventures in Burma: A Tale of the Burmese Jungle
by G. (George) Norway
About the author
Born in Liverpool in 1833, Georgina Norway was a British writer who published as G. Norway. She is mainly remembered for children's adventure fiction, and sources note that her career as a novelist began after the death of her husband in 1886.
She married Arthur Stanbury Norway in 1857 and had two sons. Some later catalogues expanded the initial “G.” to “George,” but reference works identify her as Georgina Norway and describe that mistaken form as part of the way her pen name obscured her identity.
Her active years as a novelist are generally placed between the late 1880s and early 1900s, and she is also known today as the grandmother of novelist and engineer Nevil Shute. She died in 1915 in Killiney, near Dublin.