The Adventures of an Ugly Girl: 'The fact is, I was anxious and overwrought''

Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett was born on the 16th August 1846 at Standishgate, near Wigan.

After a good education she worked as a journalist for the Newcastle Daily Chronicle and went on to become a widespread and popular writer of adventure and society novels.

As a feminist writer it is a little bizarre that she published as Mrs George Corbett. Her most ardent feminist work was ‘New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future,’ though other of her works were also similarly themed and dealt with one of...