William Edward Norris
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William Edward Norris (18 November 1847Template:Snd1925) was an English novelist and short story writer. His first story, Heap of Money, appeared in 1877, and was followed by a long series of novels and stories, many of which first appeared in the Temple Bar and Cornhill magazines.<ref name="EB1911">{{#if: |
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Life
William Edward Norris was born in London, the son of Sir William Norris, Chief Justice of Ceylon.<ref name=NIU>Norris, William Edward, Beadle and Adams Dime Novel Digitization Project, Northern Illinois University Libraries.</ref> He was educated at Eton, and called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1874, though he never practised law.<ref>Template:Who's Who</ref>
Norris died on 20 November 1925 at his Torquay home.<ref name=NIU/><ref>Who Was Who gives his date of death as 19 November 1925.</ref>
Works
Norris wrote over 60 novels; the Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th (ed), published in 1911, listed the following as his best to that date: 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) and Pauline (1908).<ref name="EB1911"/>
Novels
Short story collections
Short Stories in magazines, newspapers and anthologies
References
External links
- Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
- 1847 births
- 1925 deaths
- People educated at Eton College
- 19th-century English novelists
- 20th-century English novelists
- 19th-century English short story writers
- English male short story writers
- English male novelists
- 19th-century English male writers
- 20th-century English short story writers
- 20th-century English male writers
- Victorian novelists
- Writers from London
- Victorian short story writers