Vittoria Victrix by W. E. Norris
April 2023
This novel tells the story of a captivating and attractive young woman with questionable family provenance who wends her way through different and problematic love affairs in Victorian London before finally settling on the one man the reader was probably rooting for the whole time.
Full of Mr. Norris’s famous wit, this novel was published originally in 1911, later in his career, and as with most of his work its humor stands the test of time. The author, prolific and very popular in his time, wields his well-honed dry wit like a rapier, in such an effective style that the subtlety and delightfulness of his barbs, many of them self-deprecatingly directed by the narrator at himself, are not lost even a century and more later.
Full of Mr. Norris’s famous wit, this novel was published originally in 1911, later in his career, and as with most of his work its humor stands the test of time. The author, prolific and very popular in his time, wields his well-honed dry wit like a rapier, in such an effective style that the subtlety and delightfulness of his barbs, many of them self-deprecatingly directed by the narrator at himself, are not lost even a century and more later.