Victoria Cross Letter

Access and use

Location of collection:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)
Newman Library
Virginia Tech
P.O. Box 90001
560 Drillfield Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
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Phone: (540) 231-6308
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Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

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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.

Summary

Extent:
0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder
Creator:
Cross, Victoria and Massie, Hughes
Abstract:
This collection contains a letter from English author Victoria Cross (Annie Sophie Cory) to Hughes Massie requesting that he read and provide feedback for her novel Life's Shop-Window.
Language:
The materials in the collection are in English.
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.

Background

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."

Biographical / historical:

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.

Acquisition information:
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.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard