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Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Preferred Citation

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Victoria Cross Letter, Ms1987-039, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Source of Acquisition

The collection was purchased by Special Collections in January 1987.

Processing Information

The processing, arrangement, and description of the Victoria Cross letter was completed in September 2013.

Biographical Note

Annie Sophie Cory (1868-1952) was an English novelist and fiction writer who published under a variety of pseudonyms, including Victoria Cross, Victoria Crosse, Vivian Cory, and V. C. Griffin. Her works were often, during their own time, considered to be both exotic and erotic. She is also listed among the canon of late 19th century "New Woman" writers.

Hughes Massie was a literary and dramatic agent based in London with whom Cross had some business dealings. For a time, he also represented Cross in the United States.

Scope and Content

Victoria Cross was a pseudonym of English writer Annie Sophie Cory. She wrote this letter from the Hotel Cecil, Strand, to "Mr. Massie," presumably her literary agent Hughes Massie, asking him to read and provide feedback for her novel Life's Shop-Window . In the letter she asks him to, "read it through carefully from beginning to end and form your own opinion on it. People who are jealous of me always hurl at my writings the reproach that they are immoral."

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Authors, English -- 20th century
• British literature
• Women -- History

Rights Statement for Archival Description

The guide to the Victoria Cross Letter by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).