G. (George) Norway

Born in Liverpool in 1833, Georgina Norway wrote under the name G. Norway. She married Arthur Stanbury Norway in 1857, and after his death in 1886 she began publishing fiction, with The Brand of Cain appearing in 1888.

Her work was aimed largely at young readers and included historical and adventure novels such as A True Cornish Maid, A Dangerous Conspirator, and Ralph Denham's Adventures in Burma. Several sources note that many of her stories were connected with Cornwall, and that her pen name led some readers and catalogues to treat “G. Norway” as “George Norway.”

Reliable sources agree on her Liverpool birth and her career as a novelist, but they do not all match on her death year. One research source gives 1915, so it is safest to say that she was a nineteenth-century British author whose books remained associated with Cornish writing and Victorian popular fiction.