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.Author Information: Emma Leslie, At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901. Accessed 7 April 2020.
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. 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.Author Information: Harriett Boultwood, At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901. Accessed 7 April 2020.
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 The Captives (1873) 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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