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]

Her 1894 novel When the Sea Gives Up Its Dead features one of the earliest female detectives in fiction, Annie Cory.^[3]

Other works

Adventures of a Lady Detective (short stories; 1890)

References

^ Duangrudi Suksang, "Overtaking Patriarchy", in Utopian Studies, vol 4 no 2 (1993)
^ Fiction Mags Index
^ Women Detectives

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Name	Corbett, Elizabeth Burgoyne
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Date of birth	1846
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Date of death	1930
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