Emily Hester Brodrick


Emily Hester Brodrick was an English writer. She published novels as Mrs Alan Brodrick.

Life

Brodrick was born at Fort William, Calcutta on 15 April 1846, or 25 April, the eldest daughter of Philip Melvill, eldest son of Sir James Cosmo Melvill, and his wife Emily Jane Hogg, daughter of Charles Hogg. The Melvill family was highly influential in the East India Company. to Hon. Alan Brodrick, younger son of the 7th Viscount Midleton, She was baptised on 8 June that year.
After her marriage, she was a vicar's wife in Godalming from 1875, and Alverstoke from 1885 to 1901. In Alverstoke she was involved in setting up allotments on the glebe land. Alan became Master of the Hospital of St Cross, in Winchester, where they moved in 1901.

Death and legacy

Emily Brodrick died in 1906. In 1907 her husband dedicated Brodrick Memorial Hall in Gosport, which he and the parish built, to her memory, and also the restored South Chapel of the Hospital of St Cross.

Works

Brodrick wrote in The Monthly Packet edited by Charlotte Yonge, in 1888. She wrote novels. Her writing involved social themes treated from an Anglican point of view. Her works were:
Emily married the Rev. Hon. Alan Brodrick, son of William Brodrick, 7th Viscount Midleton, on 18 June 1867. They had five children: