author
Elizabeth Cooper
1877–1945
Known for books that explored women’s lives in China, Japan, Egypt, and beyond, this American writer traveled widely and turned those experiences into fiction and cultural studies. Her work often tried to bring distant worlds closer to English-language readers.
4 Audiobooks
Drusilla with a Million
by Elizabeth Cooper
My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard
by Elizabeth Cooper
Living Up to Billy
by Elizabeth Cooper
The Harim and the Purdah: Studies of Oriental Women
by Elizabeth Cooper
About the author
Elizabeth Goodnow Cooper was an American writer born in 1877 and deceased in 1945. Sources connected with her public-domain works identify her as a U.S. author, and several library and book records link her writing to long periods of travel in Asia and to a sustained interest in the lives of women in different societies.
Her best-known books include My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard and The Harim and the Purdah. Across these works, she focused on everyday life, customs, and especially the experiences of women in places such as China, Egypt, Turkey, and Japan. Some records also describe her as having traveled extensively in the Far East and around the world, which helps explain the international range of her subjects.
Today, Cooper is often encountered through digital libraries and public-domain editions rather than through mainstream literary histories. Even so, her books still offer a window into how one early twentieth-century American writer tried to interpret other cultures for her readers.