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WILLIAM EDWARD NORRIS (1847– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 758 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM
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EDWARD NORRIS (1847– )
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English novelist, was born on the 18th of November 1847, the son of
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Sir W . Norris, chief justice of
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Ceylon . He was educated at
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Eton, and called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1894 . His first story, Heaps of
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Money, appeared in 1877, and was followed by a long series of novels, many of which first appeared in the Temple Bar and Cornhill magazines . The best of his numerous novels are Mademoiselle de Mersac (188o), Matrimony (1881), No New Thing (1883), My Friend Jim (1886), The
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Rogue (1888), The day, who married the daughter of Lord Chancellor Rich, and Despotic Lady (1895), Matthew Austin (1895), The Widower (1898), whose eldest son, Sir John (c . 1551-1597), predeceased him . Nature's Comedian (1904), Pauline (1908) .

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