William Edward Norris
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William Edward Norris (18 November 1847 – 1925), English novelist, was the son of Sir W Norris, chief justice of Ceylon.
He was educated at Eton, and called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1874. His first story, Heap of Money, appeared in 1877, and was followed by a long series of novels, many of which first appeared in the Temple Bar and Cornhill magazines.
The best of his numerous novels are:
- Mademoiselle de Mersac (1880)
- Matrimony (1881)
- No New Thing (1883)
- My Friend Jim (1886)
- The Rogue (1888)
- The Despotic Lady (1895)
- Mathew Austin (1895)
- The Widower (1898)
- Nature's Comedian (1904)
- Pauline (1908)
[edit] External links
- Works by William Edward Norris at Internet Archive (scanned books original editions illustrated color)
- . http://books.google.com/books?q=inauthor:%22william+edward+norris%22.] at Google Books (scanned books original editions illustrated)
- Works by William Edward Norris at Project Gutenberg (plain text and HTML)
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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