William Edward Norris English

England

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 novelist, was the son of Sir W Norris, chief justice of Ceylon

Sri Lanka

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He was educated at Eton

Eton College

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, and called to the bar at the Inner Temple

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 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

Cornhill Magazine

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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)

External links

• Works by William Edward Norris at Internet Archive
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