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. The Melvill family was highly influential in the East India Company.[1] She was baptised on 8 June that year.[2][3][4]
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.[4][5] Her husband Alan Brodrick became Master of the Hospital of St Cross, in Winchester, where they moved in 1901.[6]
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.[4][6]
Brodrick wrote in The Monthly Packet edited by Charlotte Mary Yonge, in 1888.[7] She wrote novels. Her writing involved social themes treated from an Anglican point of view.[4] Her works were:
Alan Melvill Brodrick (1868–1933), married in 1898 Beatrice, daughter of the barrister Henry Ernst Hall (1845–1918).[4][13][14] The marriage was dissolved in 1901.[15] He then married Diana Peacey.[3]
^Brodrick, Mrs Alan (1896). The Creed of Philip Glyn. London: Ward & Downey. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
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Robert M. Philmus, H.G. Wells as Literary Critic for the Saturday Review, Science Fiction Studies Vol. 4, No. 2 (Jul., 1977), pp. 166–193, at p. 190. Published by: SF-TH Inc. JSTOR4239112
^Brodrick, Mrs Alan (1898). Ananias. London: Methuen. Retrieved 3 November 2017.