Emma Catherine Embury

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

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

References

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