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.

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.

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.