Emma Catherine Embury

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Emma Catherine Embury (25 February 1806 - 10 February 1863 author and poet was born in New York City to Dr. James R. Manley and Elizabeth Post. She was a regular contributer of juvenile verse and stories to the New York Mirror by the age of twenty. On 10 May 1828 she married Daniel Embury a Brooklyn banker. She died in Brooklyn.

[edit] Principal Works

  • Guido: A Tale 1828
  • Constance Latimer: or, The Blind Girl 1838
  • American Wild Flowers in Their Native Haunts 1845
  • Glimpses of Home Life: or, Causes and Consequences 1848
  • The Waldorf Family: or, Grandfather's Legend 1848

Other works published posthumously:

  • Poems of Emma C. Embury 1869
  • Prose Writings of Emma C. Embury 1893

[edit] References

"Embury, Emma Catherine" American Authors 1600-1900, The H. W. Wilson Company, 1938

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