Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett (1846–1930), also known as Mrs George Corbett, was an English feminist writer, best known for her novel New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future (1889). Many of her novels were written in the form of magazine serials and not published in book form.
Her 1894 novel When the Sea Gives Up Its Dead features one of the earliest female detectives in fiction, Annie Cory.

• The Missing Note (1881)
• Cassandra (1884)
• Pharisees Unveiled: The Adventures of an Amateur Detective (1889)
• New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future (1889)
• A Young Stowaway (1893)
• Mrs. Grundy’s Victims (1893)
• When the Sea Gives Up Its Dead (1894)
• Deb O’Mally’s (1895)
• Little Miss Robinson Crusoe (1898)
• The Marriage Market (1903)
• The Adventures of Princess Daintipet (1905)

• Adventures of a Lady Detective (short stories; 1890)
• Secrets of a Private Enquiry Office (short stories; 1891)