Emma Frances Brooke

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Standard Name: Brooke, Emma Frances
Pseudonym: E. Fairfax Byrrne
Pseudonym: The Author of A Superfluous Woman
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.
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Connections Author name Excerpt
Education Kate Parry Frye
She also educated herself through reading, and while still in her teens was recording her opinion of New Woman novels: Sarah Grand 's The Heavenly Twins, 1893, and Emma Frances Brooke 's A Superfluous...
politics Jane Hume Clapperton
Among others the committee also included Clementina Black , Beatrice Webb , and Maud Pember Reeves . It was attended by Emma Brooke and Isabella Ford .
Ishbel Maria Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen, editor. Women in Industrial Life: The International Congress of Women of 1899. T. Fisher Unwin, 1900.
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Textual Production Sarah Grand
An entire literary-social movement evolved alongside SG 's writings about the New Woman. New Woman fiction, amounting to a new genre, had already been produced by George Egerton in 1893, and was produced by Iota (Kathleen Caffyn)

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Brooke, Emma Frances. A Fair Country Maid. Richard Bentley and Son, 1883.
Brooke, Emma Frances. A Superfluous Woman. William Heinemann, 1894.
Brooke, Emma Frances. A Superfluous Woman. Cassell, 1894.
Brooke, Emma Frances. A Tabulation of the Factory Laws of European Countries. Grant Richards, 1898.
Brooke, Emma Frances, and Jane Lewin. “Correspondence: Female Middle Class Emigration Society”. The Nelson Evening Mail, Vol.
17
, No. 264.
Brooke, Emma Frances, and Jane Lewin. “Female Middle Class Emigration Society”. The Brisbane Courier, Vol.
37
, No. 7761, p. 6.
Brooke, Emma Frances. God’s Gift to Two; or Margaret Redfern’s Discipline. Religious Tract Society, 1883.
Brooke, Emma Frances. Life the Accuser. Edward Arnold, 1896.
Brooke, Emma Frances. Milicent. A Poem. C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881.
Brooke, Emma Frances. Reaping the Whirlwind. A Story of Three Lives. R.T.S., 1885.
Brooke, Emma Frances. Sir Elyot of the Woods. William Heinemann, 1907.
Brooke, Emma Frances. The Confession of Stephen Whapshare. Hutchinson & Co. , 1898.
Brooke, Emma Frances. The Engrafted Rose. Herbert S. Stone, 1900.
Brooke, Emma Frances. The Heir Without a Heritage. Richard Bentley and Son, 1887.
Brooke, Emma Frances. The House of Robershaye. Smith, Elder & Co., 1912.
Brooke, Emma Frances. Transition. A Novel. William Heinemann, 1895.
Brooke, Emma Frances. “Women and their Sphere”. Our Corner, Vol.
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