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Elizabeth Corbett


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Died
  
1930, Bures St. Mary, United Kingdom

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). Many of her novels were written in the form of magazine serials and not published in book form.

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

Novels

  • The Missing Note (1881)
  • Cassandra (1884)
  • Pharisees Unveiled: The Adventures of an Amateur Detective (1889)
  • New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future (1889)
  • A Young Stowaway (1893)
  • Mrs. Grundy’s Victims (1893)
  • When the Sea Gives Up Its Dead (1894)
  • Deb O’Mally’s (1895)
  • Little Miss Robinson Crusoe (1898)
  • The Marriage Market (1903)
  • The Adventures of Princess Daintipet (1905)
  • Other works

  • Adventures of a Lady Detective (short stories; 1890)
  • Secrets of a Private Enquiry Office (short stories; 1891)
  • References

    Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett Wikipedia