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Emma Frances Brooke
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Standard Name: Brooke, Emma Frances
Pseudonym: E. Fairfax Byrrne
Pseudonym: The Author of A Superfluous Woman
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.
, an often forgotten writer,
, and feminist, caused a sensation in 1895 when she anonymously published her most famous work, the Timeline
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Texts
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.
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, No. 264. Brooke, Emma Frances, and Jane Lewin. “Female Middle Class Emigration Society”. The Brisbane Courier, Vol.
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, 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. Life the Accuser. A Novel. William Heinemann, 1896, 3 vols.
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. Susan Wooed and Susan Won. William Heinemann, 1905.
Brooke, Emma Frances. The Confession of Stephen Whapshare. Hutchinson & Co. , 1898.
Brooke, Emma Frances. The Engrafted Rose. Hutchinson & Co., 1899.
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. The Poet’s Child. Methuen & Co., 1903.
Brooke, Emma Frances. The Story of Hauksgarth Farm. Smith, Elder & Co., 1909.
Brooke, Emma Frances. The Twins of Skirlaugh Hall. Hurst & Blackett, 1903.
Brooke, Emma Frances. Transition. A Novel. William Heinemann, 1895.
Brooke, Emma Frances. “Women and their Sphere”. Our Corner, Vol.
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. Brooke, Emma Frances. [Letters].
Brooke, Emma Frances. [Papers].