Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett
Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett (1846–1930), 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
- The Missing Note (1881)
- Cassandra (1884)
- Pharisees Unveiled: The Adventures of an Amateur Detective (1889)
- New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future (1889)
- A Young Stowaway (1893)
- Mrs. Grundy’s Victims (1893)
- When the Sea Gives Up Its Dead (1894)
- Deb O’Mally’s (1895)
- Little Miss Robinson Crusoe (1898)
- The Marriage Market (1903)
- The Adventures of Princess Daintipet (1905)
Other works
- Adventures of a Lady Detective (short stories; 1890)
- Secrets of a Private Enquiry Office (short stories; 1891)
References
- ↑ Duangrudi Suksang, "Overtaking Patriarchy", in Utopian Studies, vol 4 no 2 (1993)
- ↑ Fiction Mags Index
- ↑ Aqueduct Press - Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett. Accessed 18 Dec 2014
- ↑ Women Detectives
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