Emma Jane Guyton

Emma Jane Guyton

Emma Jane Guyton or Worboise (1825-1887), was an English novelist and editor.

Guyton was born Emma Jane Worboys in Birmingham on 20 April 1825 to George Baddeley Worboys (1803?–1867), a gunsmith, and his wife, Maria Lane (b. 1807?, d. after 1887). She was a lifelong Congregationalist. She attended boarding school and may have worked as a governess. Her first book, published under the name Worboise, was Alice Cunningham (1846). It was followed by about fifty other novels with a Christian message, which were very popular in their time. She greatly admired Dr Thomas Arnold, the educational reformer and headmaster of Rugby School, whose life she published in 1859. She began to write for the newspaper Christian World in 1857. She edited the monthly Christian World Magazine and Family Visitor from 1866 to 1885, and many of her novels were serialized there. Though she described herself late in life as the widow of a Mr Etherington Guyton, a Baptist minister of French descent, no evidence for the existence of such a person has been found. She began to suffer from alcoholism, which brought about her death on 25 August 1887 at Clevedon, Somerset.[1]

References

 "Guyton, Emma Jane". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. 



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