(This chronology, prepared mainly from the addresses on VC’s letters, reveals how peripatetic a life she lived with Heneage Griffin.)
1868 1 Oct. Born at Rawalpindi.
1876 Father, Arthur Cory, retires from the army.
1877 Civil and Military Gazette founded in Lahore.
1881 July. Father in Simla for the hot weather.
1882 Nov. Father returns to England for medical reasons.
1884 Sind Gazette founded in Karachi.
1888 June. Matriculates at London University.
1890 Passes London University Intermediate Examination in Arts.
1892 28 April. Leaves Suez on S.S. Branksome Hall.
1892 10 May. Arrives Karachi on S.S. Branksome Hall.
1892 14 May? Present at Isabel Cory and John Tate’s wedding in Karachi.
1894 Corresponds with John Lane.
1895 Signs contracts for Consummation and The Woman Who Didn’t.
1899 Dec 10. Gives address Griffin, 503 McPhee Building, Denver, Colorado.
1902 Heneage Griffin returns to England.
1903 15 Jan. Father, Arthur Cory, dies at 22 Gower Street.
1903 14 Feb. Grandmother Caroline Cory dies 92 Cambridge St.
1903, 19 Nov. Hotel Cecil, Strand, London.
1905 3 July. Beachem Wood, Brockenhurst, Hampshire.
1906 25 Aug. Beachem Wood, Brockenhurst, Hampshire.
1906 11 Sept. Beachem Wood, Brockenhurst, Hampshire.
?1906 2 Beech Villas, Yelverton, Devon.
1907 21 Aug. Beachem Wood, Brockenhurst, Hampshire.
1908 4 April. Ghezireh Palace hotel, Cairo.
1908 28 June. Hendon, Torquay, Devon.
1908 12 Nov. Hendon, Torquay, Devon.
1909 9 March. Ghezireh Palace hotel, Cairo.
1909 29 Aug. C/o Comwood Post Office, Devon.
1909 2 Oct. Hotel Plinius, Como.
1909 9 Oct. Hotel Plinius, Como.
1909 12 Nov. Grand Hotel Volta, Como.
1909 13 Nov. Grand Hotel Volta, Como.
1910 1 Jan. Grand Hotel Volta, Como.
1910 16 Jan. Grand Hotel Volta, Como.
1910 24 March. Grand Hotel Volta, Como.
1910 1 April. Bellagio, Lago Grassi, Milano (but returning to Grand Hotel Volta, Como).
1910 22 May. Grand Hotel Savoia, Rapallo.
1910 2 June. Grand Hotel Savoia, Rapallo.
19113 June. Grand Hotel Pallanza, Lago Maggiore.
1911 25 Nov. Hotel Continental, St. Raphael Var.
1911 26 Nov. Hotel Continental, St. Raphael Var.
1911 29 Nov. Hotel Continental, St. Raphael Var.
1911 1 Dec. Hotel Continental, St. Raphael Var.
1912 18 June. Hotel Cecil, Strand, London.
1912 21 Oct. Sendig Hotel, Wurttemberger Hof, Nuremberg.
1913 9 Jan. Hotel Europe Terminus, Menton.
1913 8 March. Hotel Europe Terminus, Menton.
1913 713 July. Hotel Cecil, Strand, London.
1913 13 Aug. Hotel Cecil, Strand, London.
1914 7 July. Hotel Cecil, Strand, London.
1915 24 May. 37 Cambridge Terrace, London.
1915 4 Jan. Imperial Hotel, Malvern, Worcestershire.
1915 28 June. 37 Cambridge Terrace, London.
1915 12 July. 37 Cambridge Terrace, London.
1916 28 Jan. 37 Cambridge Terrace, London.
1916 10 April. Mother, Elizabeth Fanny, at 37 Cambridge Terrace, London.
1916 25 June. Mother, Elizabeth Fanny Cory, dies at 18 Half Moon Street, London.
1917 14 Feb. Uncle Heneage Griffin at 49 Marine Parade, Brighton.
1917 5 Oct. 13 Crossmead, Lynton, Devon.
1918 11 Jan. Burlington Hotel, London.
1918 18 Jan. Burlington Hotel, London.
1918 11 April. Bath Hotel, Bournemouth.
1919 25 Aug. Uncle Heneage Griffin at Windham Club, London.
1919 Uncle Heneage Griffin buys Coleshurst from his brother.
1922 24? Oct. 95 Ebury Street, London.
1922 25 Oct. 95 Ebury Street, London.
1922 26 Oct. 95 Ebury Street, London.
1923 26 March. 95 Ebury Street, London.
1923 14 May. Riviera Palace, Menton.
1923 21 June. Hotel Della Stella, Promenade du Midi, Menton.
1923 26 July. Edward’s Park Hotel, Saint Martin-Vesubie.
1924 Feb 17. Riviera Palace, Menton.
1924 7 May. Riviera Palace, Menton.
1924 23 May. Riviera Palace, Menton.
1924 30 Aug. Hotel Regina, St.Martin-Vesubie.
1924 11 Sept. Hotel Regina, St.Martin-Vesubie.
1926 July-25 Sept. Uncle Heneage Griffin in Lapland and Norway.
1926 8 Oct. Riviera Palace, Menton.
1927 12 Sept. Savoy Palace, Chamonix.
1927 9 Dec. Riviera Palace, Menton.
1928 illegible month. Hotel des Roches, Port Vieux, Basses Pyrenees.
1928 Sewell Stokes states she spends six months of the year in Menton.
1928 26 Oct. Menton. Uncle Heneage Griffin writes to Mabel Fitzgerald.
1929 4 Jan. Riviera Palace, Menton.
1929 14 Jan. Riviera Palace Menton.
1929 7 Aug. Riviera Palace, Menton.
1930 30 Jan. Riviera Palace, Menton.
1931 5 Oct. Riviera Palace, Menton.
1931 17 Oct. Riviera Palace, Menton.
1932 25 Jan. Riviera Palace Menton.
1932 10 May. Riviera Palace, Menton.
1933 14 Nov. Riviera Palace, Menton.
1934 16 April. Riviera Palace Menton.
1934 21 Dec. Riviera Palace, Menton.
1935 June. The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection has post returned from 25 Edith Road, London, the home of her aunt Margaretta Matthews.
1936 9 Nov. Hotel Royal, San Remo.
1939 3 Sept. Uncle Heneage Griffin dies.
1939 19 Sept. Hotel Centrale, Lugano.
1940 4, 5 March. Genoa, Hotel Astoria-lsotta.
1940 1 April. Genoa, Hotel Astoria-lsotta.
1941 25 May. Hotel La Residence, Geneva.
1942 19 Oct. Geneva.
1943 Hotel La Residence, Geneva.
1946 28 April. Hotel La Residence, Geneva.
1948 9 April. Hotel Mirabeau, Monte-Carlo.
1948 20 May. Hotel Mirabeau, Monte-Carlo.
1948 17 June. Hotel Mirabeau, Monte-Carlo.
1948 11 Oct. Hotel St. Moritz, Washington, DC.
1949 14 Feb. Hotel Mirabeau, Monte-Carlo.
1949 24 Oct. Albergo Touring, Milan.
1949 1 Dec. Albergo Alpini, Bergamo.
1949, 14 Dec. Albergo Alpini, Bergamo.
1950 29 Mar. Hotel Mirabeau, Monte-Carlo.
1950 15 Aug. Albergo Touring, Milan.
1950 15 Sept. Albergo Touring, Milan.
1950 9 Oct. Albergo Touring, Milan.
1952 28 Feb. Albergo Touring, Milan.
1952 30 June. Albergo Touring, Milan. 1952 2 Aug. Dies Clinica Capitanio, Milan.