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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 (southeast London), 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 |
Emma Boultwood was born in 1838 in Greenwich, Southeast London, 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]
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]
- 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)
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