Mrs. E. Burke Collins (born 1848) was an author of English-language fiction in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Public records offer little detail about her full name and life, and only her birth year of 1848 can be confirmed. One work by her is held in the collection, Her Dark Inheritance. Judging from the title and the popular-fiction conventions of its time, the book has elements of suspense and family fate, centering on themes such as inheritance and hidden origins; it belongs to the plot-driven narrative fiction written for a broad readership of the period. Given the limited sources, her full body of work, other writings, and literary standing cannot be described in detail, yet this novel offers a useful sample for understanding the popular writing of women authors of that era.
