English fiction writer
William Edward Norris. William Edward Norris (18 November 1847 – 1925) was a London-born English fiction and 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 theTemple Bar Cornhill [ 1]
William Edward Norris was born in London, the son of SirWilliam Norris ,Chief Justice of Ceylon .[ 2] Eton , and called to the bar at theInner Temple in 1874, though he never practised law.[ 3]
Norris died on 20 November 1925 at hisTorquay home.[ 2] [ 4]
Norris wrote over 60 novels; theEncyclopædia Britannica, 11th (ed) 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) andPauline (1908).[ 1]
Heaps of Money (1877). Also published asFrom Poverty to Wealth Mademoiselle de Mersac (1880)Matrimony (1881)No New Thing (1883)Thirlby Hall (1883)Adrian Vidal (1885)A Bachelor's Blunder (1886)My Friend Jim (1886)Major and Minor (1887)[ 5] Chris (1888)The Rogue (1888)Miss Shafto (1889)Mrs. Fenton (1889)The Baffled Conspirators (1890)Marcia (1890)Misadventure (1890)Miss Wentworth's Idea (1891)Mr. Chaine's Sons (1891). Also published asThe Brothers Three His Grace (1892)The Countess Radna (1893)A Deplorable Affair (1893)Matthew Austin (1894)Saint Ann's (1894)A Victim of Good Luck (1894)Billy Bellew (1895)Clarissa Furiosa (1897)The Dancer in Yellow (1896)The Fight for the Crown (1898)Marietta's Marriage (1897)The Widower (1898)Giles Ingilby (1899)The Flower of the Flock (1900)The Embarrassing Orphan (1901). Also published asAn Embarrassing Orphan His Own Father (1901). Also published asThe Distresses of Daphne The Credit of the County (1902)Lord Leonard the Luckless (1903)Nature's Comedian (1904)Nigel's Vocation (1904)Barham of Beltana (1905). Also published asPayment in Full and asAfter Many Years Lone Marie (1905)Harry and Ursula (1907)The Square Peg (1907)Pauline (1908)The Perjurer (1909)Not Guilty (1910)Vittoria Victrix (1911)Paul's Paragon (1912)The Right Honourable Gentleman (1913)Barbara and Company (1914)Troubled Tranton (1915). Also published asAn Evil Inheritance Proud Peter (1916)Brown Amber (1917)The Fond Fugitives (1917)The Narrow Strait (1918)The Obstinate Lady (1919)The Triumphs of Sara (1920)Tony the Exceptional (1921)Sabine and Sabina (1922)Next of Kin (1923)The Conscience of Gavin Blane (1924)Trevalion (1925)Adrienne of Auxelles (1926)Short story collections [ edit ] A Man of His Word, and other stories (1885)A Man of his Word La Bella Sorrentina The Man with the Red Hair Nils Jensen The Princess Paolini Count Waldemar The Countess Adelcrantz Mrs. Van Steen The Old Woman of the Sea Jack's Father, and other stories (1891)Jack's Father The Romance of Paulilatino Mysterious Mrs. Wilkinson The Wingham Case A Queer Business Clever Lady Sophia Poor Harry The Spectre of Strathannan (1895)The Spectre of Strathannan The Scamp's Parable A Ghastly Predicament Between the Two The McCleverty The Room without a Door The Despotic Lady, and others (1895)The Despotic Lady A Slight Misunderstanding Old Jackson A Three-Bottle Comedy The Hermit of Saint-Eugène An Unresolved Discord An Octave (1900)Miser Morgan The Tenant of Shag Rock The First Lord and the Last Lady A Daughter of the Hills Citizens of the World A Préfet of the Second Empire In Good Faith Prince Coresco's Duel [ edit ] Monsieur Bedeau1875 September, inThe Cornhill Magazine Vol. 32 1875 October 16/23, inLittell's Living Age Vol. 127 La Bella Sorrentina1876 February, inThe Cornhill Magazine Vol. 33 1876 April 1, inLittell's Living Age Vol. 129 Nils Jensen1877 March, inThe Cornhill Magazine Vol. 35 1877 April 14, inLittell's Living Age Vol. 133 The Princess Paolini1877 September, inThe Cornhill Magazine Vol. 36 1877 October 6, inLittell's Living Age Vol. 135 Count Waldemar1878 May, inThe Cornhill Magazine Vol. 37 1878 June 8, inLittell's Living Age Vol. 137 Bianca (short story)1878 November, inBelgravia Vol. 37 1878 December 28, inLittell's Living Age Vol. 139 1896, inStories by English Authors: Italy [Anthology] The Old Maid's Holiday1879 September, inBelgravia Vol. 39 The Countess Adelcrantz1880 January, inThe Cornhill Magazine Vol. 41 Mrs. Van Steen1880 December, inThe Cornhill Magazine Vol. 42 Némorosa1881 September, inThe Cornhill Magazine Vol. 44 The Man with the Red Hair1882 January, inThe Cornhill Magazine Vol. 45 1882 February 18, inLittell's Living Age Vol. 152 The Old Woman of the Sea1883 July, in TheCornhill Magazine Vol. 48 The Romance of Paulilatino1883 September, inThe Cornhill Magazine Vol. 48 A Slight Misunderstanding1883 October, inThe Cornhill Magazine Vol. 48 The Philosopher's Daughter1884 January 17, inThe Independent Vol. 36 Man of his Word1884 Summer, inThe Graphic An Algerian Episode1884 July 24, inThe Independent Vol. 36 The Hermit of Saint-Eugène1884 October, inLongman's Magazine Vol. 4 1884 October 25, inLittell's Living Age Vol. 163 That Terrible Man aka A Terrible Man1884 November/December & 1885 January, inThe English Illustrated Magazine Vol. 2 Mysterious Mrs. Wilkinson1885 July, inThe Cornhill Magazine Vol. 52 Miss Wyndham1885 July 9, inThe Independent Vol. 37 The Colonel's Mother1886 January 21, inThe Independent Vol. 38 A Diplomatic Victory1886 April, inLongman's Magazine Vol. 7 1886 May 15, inLittell's Living Age Vol. 169 The Wingham Case1886 June, inThe Cornhill Magazine Vol. 53 Her Own Doing1886 Summer, inThe Graphic In Good Faith1886 July, inThe Cornhill Magazine Vol. 54 Prince Coresco's Duel1886 August, inLongman's Magazine Vol. 8 1886 September 18, inLittell's Living Age Vol. 170 The Spectre of Strathannan1886 Christmas, inThe Witching Time [Annual] The King's Double1886 September 2, inThe Independent Vol. 38 Clever Lady Sophia1887 April, inLongman's Magazine Vol. 9 All Ye that Pass By1887 May 28/June 4, inThe Illustrated London News Robinson's Friend1887 Christmas, inThe Graphic An Absolute Lunatic1888 January 19, inThe Independent Vol. 40 A Queer Business1888 February, inLongman's Magazine Vol. 11 Jack's Father1888 May/June, inMurray's Magazine Vol. 3 Poor Harry1888 September, inLongman's Magazine Vol. 12 1888 October 27, inLittell's Living Age Vol. 179 La Belle Américaine (short story)1888 December, inThe English Illustrated Magazine Vol. 6 The Duffer1889 June 8, inThe Nottinghamshire Guardian 1890, in Twenty Novelettes [Anthology] 1894 August 31/September 7, inThe Middlesex Courier 1894, inA Dozen All Told [Anthology] 1895 December, inShort Stories Vol. 20 Invisible Mr. Morgan (29 June 1889, @ Genealogybank)1889 November 30, inManchester Weekly Times Supplement Mr. Gregory's Misadventure1889 December, inAtalanta Vol. 3 The Old Brown Mare1890 March, inThe English Illustrated Magazine Vol .7 An Innocent Chaperone1891 January, inLongman's Magazine Vol. 17 The Romance of Madame de Chanteloup1891 April 11, inBlack and White Vol. 1 1891 November 21, inThe Newcastle Courant 1891 November 21, inThe Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle 1893, inStories From Black And White [Anthology] The Room Without a Door1891 May 22, inManchester Weekly Times Supplement 1892 January 22, inBlackheath Gazette Quite Impossible (26 July 1891, @ NewspaperArchive)1891 August 1, inBlack and White Vol. 2 1892 January 23, inThe Newcastle Courant 1892 January 23, inThe Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle 1894, inMiss Parson's Adventure [Anthology] 1898 April 23, inThe Nottinghamshire Guardian 1900 August 11, inThe Hampshire Telegraph Supplement Ambitious Mrs. Willatts1891 August, inLongman's Magazine Vol. 18 The Musical Mouse1891 October 3, inBlack and White Vol. 2 1901, inStrange Happenings [Anthology] The Philosopher's Son1891 December 5, inBlack and White Vol. 2 1901, inStrange Happenings [Anthology] A Tough Job (13 December 1891, @ Genealogybank) aka *The Lies that Failed The Late Viscount Brent1892 November 25/December 2, inManchester Weekly Times Supplement 1892 November 25/December 2, inThe Middlesex Courier 1892 November 26/December 3, inThe Leeds Mercury Weekly Supplement 1892 November 26/December 3, inThe Derby Daily Telegraph The Scamp's Parable1893 April 1, inThe Newcastle Courant 1894 August 11, inThe Derby Daily Telegraph Between the Two1893 July 8, inThe Newcastle Courant The Nethergate Tragedy1893 July 26, inThe Pall Mall Gazette A Candidate for Martyrdom1893 August, inThe Pall Mall Magazine Vol. 1 A Three-Bottle Comedy1893 October, inLongman's Magazine Vol. 22 1893 December 9, inLittell's Living Age Vol. 199 1894 April, inShort Stories Vol. 15 A Partie Carrée1893 December, inHarper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. 88 Kaddour1893 December, inThe English Illustrated Magazine Vol. 11 The McCleverty1894 January 12, inManchester Weekly Times Supplement 1894 January 13, inThe Penny Illustrated Paper Old Jackson1894 March, inGood Words 1894 Her Ladyship's Veil1894 May, inThe Pall Mall Magazine Vol. 3 The Tug of War1894 June, inHarper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. 89 A Ghastly Predicament1894 June 16, inThe Nottinghamshire Guardian An Unresolved Discord1894 October, inLongman's Magazine Vol. 24 1894 November 17, inLittell's Living Age Vol. 203 The Despotic Lady1894 November 10/17/24 & 1 December 1/8, inThe Graphic The Tenant of Shag Rock1895 June, inLongman's Magazine Vol. 26 My Fellow-Poacher1895 August, inThe Badminton Magazine Vol. 1 Sir William's Wife1895 December, inThe English Illustrated Magazine Vol. 14 Miser Morgan1896 February, inLongman's Magazine Vol. 27 1896 February 22, inLittell's Living Age Vol. 208 Scandalous Martha1896 February, inChapman's Magazine Vol. 3 The King's Cousin1896 February 15, inThe Leeds Mercury Weekly Supplement 1896 February 15/22, inThe Newcastle Courant 1896 February 15/22, inThe Nottinghamshire Guardian The Dowager's Companion1896 June, inHarper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. 93 Topper (short story)1896 July, inBadminton Magazine Vol. 3 The Three Aspirants1896 November, inThe Lady's Realm Vol. 1 The Beneficient Blunderer1896 November 7, inThe Leeds Mercury Weekly Supplement 1896 November 7, inThe Nottinghamshire Guardian The Anarchical Clerk1896 November 14, inThe Nottinghamshire Guardian The Two Noels1896 December 12, inThe Nottinghamshire Guardian 1896 December 12, inThe Leeds Mercury Weekly Supplement 1896 December 26, inThe Bristol Mercury Weekly Supplement A Christmas Bonfire (13 December 1896, @ Genealogybank)1896 Christmas, inThe Yorkshire Weekly Post 1899 March 4, inThe Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald as The Matchmaker A Half Genius1896 Christmas, inThe Graphic A Simple Soul1897 April, inThe Lady's Realm Vol. 1 Hard Luck (short story)1897 May 8, inThe Illustrated London News A Préfet of the Second Empire1897 Summer, inThe Graphic A Sorrowful Sonneteer1897 November, inThe Lady's Realm Vol. 3 The Christmas Diamond (1897 December 9/10)1903 December 23, inThe Manchester Evening News The Princess's Betrothal1898 January 8, inThe Newcastle Courant 1898 January 8, inThe Manchester Courier Weekly Supplement 1900 July 7, inThe Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald 1900 July 16/17, inThe Shields Daily Gazette and Shipping Telegraph The Lady of the Manor1898 July 9, inThe Nottinghamshire Guardian 1898 July 9, inThe Bristol Mercury Weekly Supplement 1899 January 11, inThe Taunton Courier A Daughter of the Hills1898 September 3, inThe Illustrated London News A Seafaring Philosopher1898, inThe Sketch Christmas Number The First Lord and the Last Lady1899 February, inLongman's Magazine Vol. 33 Miss Bob1899 March 30, inHearth and Home 1899 April 1, inThe Newcastle Courant 1900 February 24, inThe Manchester Courier Weekly Supplement 1902 February 1, inThe Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald Citizens of the World1899 April 8, inThe Illustrated London News When Thieves Fall Out 1899 May 20, inThe Illustrated London News 1900, inThe Ladysmith Treasury [Anthology] Among Thieves1899 May 27/June 3, inHarper's Weekly Vol. 43 (as Amongst Thieves) 1899 June 3/10, inThe Graphic Mrs. Le Grand1899 Summer, inThe Graphic The Widow's Might1899 July 22, inThe Nottinghamshire Guardian 1899 July 22, inThe Hampshire Telegraph Supplement 1899 July 22, inThe Manchester Evening News 1903 March 20, inLeamington Spa Courier Vincenzo's Triumph1899 November 23, inThe Independent Vol. 51 Filia Pulchrior1900 March, inLongman's Magazine Vol. 35 The Errors of the Wise1900 April 14, inThe Newcastle Courant 1900 July 5, inHearth and Home 1902 November 22, inThe Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald Sir William the Silent1900 Summer, inThe Graphic The Day of His Glory1900 December 1, inThe Sphere Vol. 3 The Heroic Revivalists1901 January, inLongman's Magazine Vol. 37 The Deputy Mendicant1901 January 26, inThe Illustrated London News The Lovers' Meeting1901 Sep 28, inThe Norfolk News 1903 February 7, inThe Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald An Unworthy Stratagem1901 December 7, inThe Illustrated London News Mrs. Gilbert's Puppets1901 Christmas, inThe Graphic First or Second1902 Jan 3, inThe Lancashire Daily Post 1902 January 4, in TheManchester Courier Weekly Supplement Mr. Brough's Client1902 October, inThe Cornhill Magazine Vol. 86 The Elusive Coronet1903 July 4, inCardiff Times and South Wales Weekly News The Roses of Christmas (19 December 1903, @ Trove) The Courageous Coward1904 May 28, inThe Graphic Vol. 69 The Butler Intervenes (1904 December 24, @ PapersPast) (cf The Beneficient Blunderer, 1896) The Mulcted Millionaire1905 May 27,The Derby Daily Telegraph An Uncharted Reef1905 August, inLongman's Magazine Vol. 46 A Repentant Defaulter (27 September 1905, @ PapersPast) (cf All Ye that Pass By, 1887) Fifteen Drops1905 December, inThe Cornhill Magazine Vol. 92 1905 May 27, inThe Daily Telegraph The Reforming of Lady Wynchcombe1906 January 3, inThe Bystander Vol. 9 Sir Robert & the Adventuress1906 March 23, inDaily Mail The Perdition of Peter Sherard1906 April 14/21, inThe Illustrated London Magazine My Own Petard (31 August 1906, @ PapersPast)1913 June, inThe English Illustrated Magazine Vol. 49 The King and the Anarchist1906 October, inThe Cornhill Magazine Vol. 94 The Princess's Eyebrow1906 December 5, inThe Bystander Vol. 12 The Thieves' Terror1907 May, inThe Strand Magazine Vol. 33 Mascali the Avenger1907 July, inThe London Magazine Vol. 18 The Coward1907 August, inThe Blue Book Magazine Vol. 5 A Base Conspiracy (28 December 1907, @ Trove) The Heart of the Editor1908 January 25, inThe Queen Vol. 123 1908 January 25, inBurnley Express 1908 February, inEvery Where Vol. 21 1908 September, inShort Stories Vol. 70 The Fiddler's Fortune1908 July 17, inT. P.'s Weekly Vol. 12 The Missing Links1908 August, inThe Cornhill Magazine Vol. 98 The Fellow-Lodgers1909 April 10, inThe Queen The Girl with Only One Talent1909 June, inThe Cornhill Magazine Vol. 99 The Mummers of Marpleton (4 December 1909, @ Trove) A Change of Partners (25 February 1910, @ Trove) The Strayed Bishop1910 October 22, inCardiff Times and South Wales Weekly News 1910 October 22, inThe Weekly Times The Magic Mistletoe (17 December 1910, @ Trove) A Christmas Blizzard [1910, inThe Croydon Chronicle Christmas Number]1912 December 14, inThe Irish Weekly The Refractory Prince1911 February 4, inThe Queen Vol. 11 Wily Miss Wilton (27 May 1911, @ PapersPast)1915 July, inThe Canadian Magazine Vol. 45 Florinda's Christmas Eve1911 December 14, inBelfast Weekly News 1918 December, inThe Canadian Magazine Vol. 52 The Black Spectre1912 March, inThe Pall Mall Magazine Vol. 49 1914 January 31, inThe Tamworth Herald Befogged (27 July 1912, @ PapersPast) On and Off Guard (8 November 1913, @ PapersPast) Friendship's Penalty1913 December, inThe Cornhill Magazine Vol. 108 Star Sapphira (1913 December 23/24, @ Trove) The Lady and the Burglar1914 April 18, inThe Queen Vol. 135 A Peasant of Lorraine1914 Oct, inThe Cornhill Magazine Vol. 110 1914 Nov 7, inThe Living Age Vol. 283 The Hedonic Old Lady (24 October 1914, @ Trove)1914 November 14, inThe Queen Vol.136 1918 April 17, inTaunton Courier A Christmas Arbitration (19 December 1914, @ Trove) The Guiltless Murderer1915 April 17, inThe Queen Vol.137 The Incriminating Weapon (25 September 1915, @ Trove) The Truce of God (11 December 1915, @ Trove)1915 December 25, inThe Walsall Observer The Charming Miscreant1916 Jul 29, inThe Queen Vol.140 The Christmas After (23 December 1916, @ Trove) Jan Issel1917 January, inThe Cornhill Magazine Vol. 115 Two Christmas Days1917, inHolly Leaves Christmas Number ofThe Illustrated Sporting and dramatic News The Dark House1917 December, inThe Canadian Magazine Vol. 50 The Warning Blast1918 March 16, inThe Weekly Freeman St. Patrick's Day Number The Sublime Ass (12 June 1920) A Carol in Two Flats (24 December 1920, @ PapersPast)1920 December 25, inThe Blackburn Times The Insurgent Revellers (14 January 1922, @ Trove) The Appalling Passenger (15 July 1922, @ Trove) Irresistible Mr. Annett1923 January 12, inShipley Times and Express By Mutual Consent (15 September 1923, @ Trove) The Willingham Van Dyck (2 February 1924) A Hater of Women (12 October 1924)1925 September 19, inThe Derby Daily Telegraph A Victim of Impulse (13 August 1925, @ Trove) The Involuntary Absconders (12 September 1925, @ Trove) Two Sons of France1926 April 7, inTaunton Courier Robbery by Request (3 August 1926) A Modest Machiavelli1934 November 2, inThe Somerset Standard 1937 October 12, inPenrith Observer ^a b public domain : Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). "Norris, William Edward ".Encyclopædia Britannica 757– 758.^a b Norris, William Edward , Beadle and Adams Dime Novel Digitization Project,Northern Illinois University Libraries .^ "NORRIS, William Edward" Who's Who & Who Was Who . Retrieved7 January 2013 .(Subscription orUK public library membership required.) ^ Who Was Who gives his date of death as 19 November 1925.^ "Review ofMajor and Minor by W. E. Nerris" .The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art .64 (1667): 491. 8 October 1887.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Norris, William Edward".Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 19 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 757–758.
