To-morrow?

by Victoria Cross

Annie Sophie Cory (1868-1952) was the author of popular, racy, exotic novels under the pseudonyms Victoria Cross(e), Vivian Cory and Vivian Cory Griffin. She was born as the third of three daughters to Colonel Arthur Cory and Fanny Elizabeth Griffin. Her father was employed in the British army at Lahore, and Annie Sophie Cory grew up in India. She never married, and after her father's death she travelled, finally settling in Monte Carlo to live with female friends. One of her sisters, Adela Florence Nicolson, became famous as the exotic poet "Laurence Hope. " Cory's works include: The Woman Who Didn't (also titled: Consummation) (1895), Paula (1896), A Girl of the Klondike (1899), Anna Lombard (1901), Six Chapters of a Man's Life (1903), To-morrow? (1904), The Religion of Evelyn Hastings (1905), Life of My Heart (1905), Six Women (1906), Life's Shop-Window (1907), Five Nights (1908), The Eternal Fires (1910), The Love of Kusuma (1910), Self and the Other (1911), The Life Sentence (1912) and The Night of Temptation (1912).

184 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1904

About the author

Annie Sophie Cory was the author of popular, racy, exotic novels under the pseudonyms Victoria Cross(e), Vivian Cory and V.C. Griffin.

Reviews

[Michelle · Rating 1 out of 5]

Bleh. I was vaguely interested when I found this at a used book store because Victoria Cross was a pen name of Annie Sophie Cory, who wrote racy-for-the-time novels that explored women's sexual feelings, interracial relationships, and other taboo subjects. But there's no denying that this is just not a good book. Nothing happens except lots of drawn-out sexual tension from the intolerably smug narrator. The basic plot is that the narrator has promised his father to get a novel published before marrying the woman he loves, to prove that he can make his own way. No one wants to publish him because his books don't conform to the mores of the time (sound familiar?), so he decides to go to Paris, where they're more liberal about these things. Shenanigans happen, he keeps suppressing his sexual urges and denying his lady, she gets all weak and sickly (from hysteria!), he starts to question whether it's wise to push off happiness until "to-morrow" and so on and so forth until you just can't handle any more. Probably some of her better-known novels, such as Anna Lombard or Life of My Heart, would be a better way to experience her convention-defying stories.
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