[3] Corbett worked as a journalist for the Newcastle Daily Chronicle and as a popular writer of adventure and society novels.
[4] Many of her novels originated as magazine serials and not published in book form.
[5] In June 1889, Mrs Humphry Ward's open letter "An Appeal Against Female Suffrage" was published in The Nineteenth Century with over a hundred other female signatories against the extension of Parliamentary suffrage to women.
[4] While New Amazonia was the most explicitly feminist of her novels, it was not the only one to deal with the position of women in society.
[9] Her writing was not universally well received, but Hearth and Home listed her along with Arthur Conan Doyle as one of the masters of the art of the detective novel.