Emma Leslie

Emma Leslie was the pseudonym of Emma Boultwood (1838–1909), an English writer of children's books and historical fiction. She wrote more than one hundred books.^[1]

Emma Boultwood
Born	1838 Greenwich, Kent, England
Died	1909 (aged 71) Pembroke, Wales
Pen name	Emma Leslie
Occupation	Writer
Genres	Children's and historical books
Spouse	Thomas Francis Dixon ​ ​ (m. 1873)​
Children	2

Early life

Emma Boultwood was born in 1838 in Greenwich in north-west Kent, the daughter of Thomas Boultwood, a bootmaker. For a time she worked as a governess.^[1] She started writing in the 1860s, publishing children's and historical fiction for the Religious Tract Society and the Sunday School Union.^[1] Her younger sister, Harriet Boultwood, also became a novelist, and wrote dozens of books for religious publishers.^[2]

Personal life

In 1873 Boultwood married Thomas Francis Dixon, and they had two sons.^[1]

Though a longtime resident of Lewisham, in 1909 Boultwood Dixon died in Pembroke, Wales, and is buried there.^[1]

Selected bibliography

• The Captives (1873)^[3]
• Hayslope Grange: A Tale of the Civil War (1873)
• Charley’s Log: A Story of Schoolboy’s Life (1882)
• A Sailor’s Lass (1886)
• Kate’s Ordeal (1887)
• The Seed She Sowed: A Tale of the Great Dock Strike (1891)
• Eric, a Waif: A Story of Last Century (1892)
• Brave Bessie Westland: A Story of Quaker Persecution (1893)
• A Gypsy Against Her Will: or, Worth Her Weight in Gold (1893)
• Elsie’s Scholarship, and Why She Surrendered it (1898)
• At the Sign of the Golden Fleece: A Story of Reformation Days (1900)
• That Scholarship Boy (1900)
• Arthur’s Inheritance: or, How He Conquered (1901)
• Brought Out of Peril (1906)
• Saved by Love: A Story of London Streets (1913)