Emily Hester Brodrick

Emily Hester Brodrick (née Melvill; 15 April 1846 – 1906) was an English writer.

Brodrick was born at Fort William, Calcutta on 15 April 1846, or 25 April, the eldest daughter of Philip Melvill (1817–1854), eldest son of Sir James Cosmo Melvill, and his wife Emily Jane Hogg, daughter of Charles Hogg.

[4][5] Her husband Alan Brodrick became Master of the Hospital of St Cross, in Winchester, where they moved in 1901.

[4][6] Brodrick wrote in The Monthly Packet edited by Charlotte Mary Yonge, in 1888.

Her writing involved social themes treated from an Anglican point of view.