Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett (18461930), also known as Mrs George Corbett, was an English feminist writer, best known for her novel New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future (1889).[1][2] Many of her novels were written in the form of magazine serials and not published in book form.[3]

Her 1894 novel When the Sea Gives Up Its Dead features one of the earliest female detectives in fiction, Annie Cory.[4]

Novels

Other works

References

  1. Duangrudi Suksang, "Overtaking Patriarchy", in Utopian Studies, vol 4 no 2 (1993)
  2. Fiction Mags Index
  3. Aqueduct Press - Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett. Accessed 18 Dec 2014
  4. Women Detectives


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