Norma Lorimer

Norma Octavia Lorimer (1864–1948) was a Scots novelist and travel writer, who has been called "One of the most notable early female novelists of the Isle of Man." Lorimer was born in Auchterarder, Perthshire, the eighth and youngest daughter in a family of eleven. She was raised on the Isle of Man, to which "she returned to in her fiction, showing clearly that she had 'lost her heart' to the South of the Island."In the 1890s she became secretary to Douglas Sladen, with whom she wrote book two of Queer Things about Sicily (Sicily from a Woman's Point of View). She contributed to the Girl's Own Paper and wrote numerous travel books and 26 "rather sentimental novels." "Perhaps her best book was On Etna," her novel A Wife out of Egypt became a best-seller. "The grand sweep of emotions in her Manx novels offers a fresh colouring to the history and scenery of the South of the Island whilst demonstrating the variance and colour to Manx novels."Lorimer died on 14 February 1948, in Perth, Scotland.