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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. 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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