Emma Brooke

Emma Brooke or Emma Frances Brooke (22 December 1844 – 28 November 1926) was a British novelist and a campaigner for the rights of women and workers.

Life Brooke was born in Cheshire on 22 December 1844. Her father was a cotton mill owner and a capitalist. She was brought up in Bollington. Her father died in 1872 and with her inheritance she invested it in her own education. Brooke saw this novel and The Woman Who Did as important in trying to resolve the "Sex Question" which she thought dominated debate in the 1880s and 1890s. She was annoyed when H. G. Wells reinvented the question when he spoke to the Fabian Society in 1906.

Brooke died at a nursing home in Weybridge, Surrey on November 28, 1926.

Works Milicent: A Poem (1881) A Fair Country Maid (1883) God's Gifts to Two or Margaret Redfern's Discipline (1883) Reaping the Whirlwind: A Story of Three Lives (1885) Entangled (1885) The Heir Without a Heritage (1887) A Superfluous Woman (1894) Life the Accuser (1896) The Confession of Stephen Whapshare (1898) The Engrafted Rose (1899) The Twins of Skirlaugh Hall (1903) The Poet's Child (1903) Susan Wooed and Susan Won (1905) Sir Elyot of the Woods (1907) The Story of Hauksgarth Farm (1909) The House of Robershaye (1912)