author
Elizabeth Cooper
1877–1945
An American novelist and travel writer who spent much of her adult life in Asia, she wrote vivid popular books that introduced readers to women's lives in China, Japan, Egypt, and Turkey. Her work blends storytelling with firsthand observation and a strong curiosity about everyday life across cultures.
4 Audiobooks
Drusilla with a Million
by Elizabeth Cooper
Living Up to Billy
by Elizabeth Cooper
My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard
by Elizabeth Cooper
The Harim and the Purdah: Studies of Oriental Women
by Elizabeth Cooper
About the author
Born in 1877, Elizabeth Goodnow Cooper was an American writer who also published as Elizabeth Cooper and was known as Mrs. Clayton Sedgwick Cooper. She built her career around fiction and travel writing, and her books often centered on women, home life, and social customs in Asia.
She spent much of her adult life in the Far East, and that experience shaped the books she became best known for. Titles such as My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard helped make distant places feel immediate to English-language readers, combining narrative appeal with an interest in how women lived within different traditions and households.
Cooper died in 1945. Beyond her writing, she has also been remembered in Miami Beach civic history as one of the women involved in founding the Miami Beach Woman's Club, adding a community-minded chapter to a life already marked by travel, observation, and storytelling.