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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.
Early life
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. She started writing in the 1860s, publishing children's and historical fiction for the Religious Tract Society and the Sunday School Union. Her younger sister, Harriet Boultwood, also became a novelist, and wrote dozens of books for religious publishers.
Personal life
In 1873 Boultwood married Thomas Francis Dixon, and they had two sons.
Though a longtime resident of Lewisham, in 1909 Boultwood Dixon died in Pembroke, Wales, and is buried there.
Selected bibliography
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)
References
External links
Works by Emma Leslie at Project Gutenberg
Works by Emma Leslie at Faded Page (Canada)
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