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Victoria Cross
1868–1952
Best known for bold, unconventional fiction, this British writer published as Victoria Cross and became one of the striking voices associated with New Woman writing. Her novels often pushed at the boundaries of gender, desire, and social respectability.
6 Audiobooks
Six Women
by Victoria Cross
Five Nights: A Novel
by Victoria Cross
To-morrow?
by Victoria Cross
The Night of Temptation
by Victoria Cross
A Girl of the Klondike
by Victoria Cross
The beating heart
by Victoria Cross
About the author
Born Annie Sophie Cory in Rawalpindi, in British India, on October 1, 1868, she wrote under several names, including Victoria Cross, Vivian Cory, and V. C. Griffin. She was the younger sister of poet Adela Florence Nicolson, who wrote as Laurence Hope.
Cross built a reputation in the 1890s and early 1900s for popular novels that contemporary readers often saw as daring or provocative. Her work is especially remembered for its interest in sexuality, class, race, and women who resist the narrow roles assigned to them, and The Woman Who Didn't helped make her an early controversial success.
Although she was widely read in her day, she also remained somewhat elusive, and modern accounts note that parts of her life are still not well documented. She died in Milan on August 2, 1952, leaving behind a body of fiction that continues to interest readers of fin-de-siècle and New Woman literature.