Mrs. George Corbett

Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett, who published as Mrs George Corbett, was an English writer born in 1846 near Wigan. She later worked as a journalist for the Newcastle Daily Chronicle and built a career as a novelist whose stories often first appeared in magazines before reaching book form.

She is now best remembered for New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future (1889), a feminist utopian novel written in response to public arguments against women's suffrage. Although that book stands out most clearly today, she wrote across several popular forms, including adventure fiction, society novels, and detective stories.

Her later reputation has also grown because When the Sea Gives Up Its Dead (1894) features Annie Cory, noted as one of the earliest female detectives in fiction. Corbett married George Corbett in 1868 and had four children, three of whom survived childhood; she died in 1930.