Maria Norris

Maria Norris (1827 – 1894) was a British poet, novelist, and biographer.

Maria Norris was born on 1827 in London, the eldest of six children of James and Anne Norris. James Norris was a stationer and publisher of the Railway Times, brother of the paper manufacturer and M.P. John Thomas Norris.

She published a biography of Germaine de Staël in 1853 and a novel, Philip Lancaster, in 1854. Philip Lancaster was dedicated to Mary Russell Mitford and centered on two sisters in love with the same man.

In 1861, Norris was working as a milliner. She spent two decades operating a school in Newton Abbot with another woman, Charlotte Barber.