Bertha Thomas (19 March 1845 – 24 August 1918), was a Victorian pro-feminist writer, author of the 1880 novel The Violin Player.
The 1880 novel The Violin-Player has been described as "perhaps the most triumphant narrative of female musicality in Victorian literature".
[1] Her 1875 booklet Latest Intelligence from the Planet Venus, first published in Fraser’s Magazine, presented a satirical argument against giving women the vote.
In The Son of the House (1900), a mother imprisons her son under the guise of insanity to protect the family inheritance - a subversion of The Madwoman in the Attic Victorian trope of an insane woman controlled by her male relatives.
[2] Thomas also wrote the libretto for her sister Florence's operetta Prince Sprite in 1891, published by Novello.