Bollington's most famous female writer is being put in the spotlight.

The Friends of Bollington Library have organised a talk on novelist and campaigner for women's and workers' rights, Emma Brooke.

Emma, born in Bollington in 1844 into a mill-owning family, used the experience of her upbringing in her novels.

Her books, which included best sellers, explored the disadvantaged status of women and the challenges they encountered in trying to survive the challenges of life in manufacturing towns.

She was one of the first women to study at Newnham College, Cambridge, and went on to become a prominent Fabian socialist and political activist.

The speaker, Dr Barbara Tilley, is an American academic who first encountered Emma's work while studying Victorian writers as an undergraduate.

For over twenty years, while teaching at US universities, she has researched the life and work of the author, including through a number of visits to Bollington.

 Through describing Emma Brooke's life and family in Bollington, she will present a picture of the nineteenth century industrial town and reveal a recently discovered novel based on Bollington.

 Tickets for the talk which is at Hollin House Hotel on Thursday, April 24 at 7.30pm, can be purchased for £10 by visiting Ticket Source.