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Women's History Review

Volume 12, Issue 2, Jun 2003
Pages 153-168

DOI: 10.1080/09612020300200353
Print ISSN: 0961-2025
Online ISSN: 1747-583X

Emma Brooke: Fabian, feminist and writer

By
The Late Kay Daniels

University of Tasmania

Abstract

Largely overlooked in Fabian historiography and absent from major works of biographical reference, Emma Brooke (c1844-1926) was an early Fabian and successful novelist whose analysis of ‘the woman question’, and especially the sex question, significantly predates the better known critique by H. G. Wells. This posthumously published article examines Brooke's thinking over time, drawing on personal correspondence and literary representations, and offers further insights into the relationship between feminism and socialism in the 1880s and 1890s.