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A. A. (Agnes Amy) Brooke
1852–1939
An English writer and education reformer, she is best remembered for championing women’s learning and for co-authoring Women’s Work, a clear-eyed look at women’s labor in the late 19th century.
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Women's Work
by A. A. (Agnes Amy) Brooke, Margaret Whitley
About the author
Born Agnes Amy Bulley in 1852 and later known as Amy Brooke, she was part of the early generation of women pushing into higher education in England. She studied at both Girton College and Newnham College, Cambridge, and was among the first women to sit the Cambridge tripos examinations.
Her writing reflects that same practical, reform-minded spirit. Under the name A. A. Brooke, she co-authored Women’s Work with Margaret Whitley, exploring the opportunities and limits facing women workers in her time.
She died in 1939. Today, she is remembered both as an advocate for women’s education and as a writer who helped document the changing place of women in public and working life.