Norris, Maria (F)

Surname: Norris
Forename(s): Maria
b. 1827. d. 1894. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet, biographer, novelist, and teacher. Born in London. Author of The Life and Times of Madame de Staël (1853) and Philip Lancaster (1854). Friend of Mary Russell Mitford. Apparently, after 1860, gave up a literary career to become a milliner and then to establish a school. Biographical information: At the Circulating Library; Jeremy Parrott, Lohrli Revisited: Newly Identified Contributors to Household Words, Dickens Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 2, June 2018, pp. 110-125 (p. 121). (AC)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 3
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
The Siege of Rhodes 1850 The Keepsake Poet 5691
The Uses of Sorrow 1850-05-11 Household Words Poet 1076
The Son of Sorrow. A Fable from the Swedish 1850-06-01 Household Words Translator 1086