Adela Florence Nicolson was an English poet who wrote under the pseudonym Laurence Hope.
She was born on 9 April 1865 at Stoke Bishop, Gloucestershire, the second of three daughters to Colonel Arthur Cory and Fanny Elizabeth Griffin. Her father was employed in the British army at Lahore, and thus she was raised by her relatives back in England. She left for India in 1881 to join her father. Her father was editor of the Lahore arm of The Civil and Military Gazette, and it was he who in all probability gave Rudyard Kipling (a contemporary of his daughter) his first employment as a journalist.
Her sisters Annie Sophie Cory and Isabel Cory also pursued writing careers Annie wrote popular,racy novels under the pseudonym “Victoria Cross”,while Isabel assisted and then succeeded their father as editor of the Sind Gazette.
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