Victoria Cross was a pseudonym of English writer Annie Sophie Cory. She wrote this letter from the Hotel Cecil, Strand, to "Mr. Massie," presumably her literary agent Hughes Massie, asking him to read and provide feedback for her novel Life's Shop-Window. In the letter she asks him to, "read it through carefully from beginning to end and form your own opinion on it. People who are jealous of me always hurl at my writings the reproach that they are immoral."