Mrs. George Corbett

Born Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett in 1846, she became known to readers as Mrs. George Corbett. She was an English feminist writer and journalist, and is now most often remembered for New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future (1889), a bold utopian novel that imagined a future shaped by women's political power.

Her work was not limited to one kind of story. She wrote novels, detective fiction, and other popular pieces, and some of her writing appeared in serialized form in magazines rather than first as books. Sources on her career also describe her as contributing journalism to the Newcastle Daily Chronicle.

Corbett died in 1930, but her writing has continued to attract interest because of its mix of storytelling, social ideas, and early feminist vision. Today, she stands out as a writer whose fiction captured both the reading tastes and the political debates of her time.