The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Embury, Emma Catharine

EMBURY, Emma Catharine, an American authoress, born in New York in 1806, died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 10, 1863. She was the daughter of Dr. James R. Manley of New York, and was married to Mr. Daniel Embury in 1828. In the same year she published “Guido and other Poems.” She frequently contributed to periodicals poems and tales, most of which afterward appeared in a collected form, under the titles of “The Blind Girl and other Tales,” “Glimpses of Home Life,” and “Pictures of Early Life.” In 1845 she supplied the letter-press, both prose and verse, to an illustrated gift book entitled “Nature's Gems, or American Wild Flowers,” and in the succeeding year published a collection of poems called “Love's Token Flowers.” In 1848 she published “The Waldorf Family, or Grandfather's Legends,” a fairy tale of Brittany, partly a translation and partly original.