Emma Frances Brooke

Emma Frances Brooke , an often forgotten writer, Fabian , and feminist, caused a sensation in 1895 when she anonymously published her most famous work, the New Woman novel A Superfluous Woman, a vociferous attack on degenerate men. She had already issued a number of works under the pseudonym E. Fairfax Byrrne, beginning in 1881 with Milicent. A Poem. She continued to publish regularly until 1912: mostly novels, but also tracts and articles. In these, including the impressive A Tabulation of the Factory Laws of European Countries, she campaigned for the socialist and feminist transformation of society, which she also pursued through political action.