Adela Florence Nicolson (née Cory) (1865-1904) was an English poet who wrote under the pseudonym Laurence Hope. 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. In 1901, she published Garden of Kama, which was published a year later in America under the title India"s Love Lyrics. Her poems often used imagery and symbols from the poets of the North-West Frontier of India and the Sufi poets of Persia. She was among the most popular romantic poets of the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Her poems are typically about unrequited love and loss and often, the death that followed such an unhappy state of affairs. Many of them have an air of autobiography or confession. Her poetry was extremely popular during the Edwardian period. Amongst her other works are Stars of the Desert (1903), Indian love (1905) and Last Poems (1915).