Emma Jane Worboise

20 April 1825 - 24 August 1887

EJW was a prolific Victorian novelist who wrote didactic and often sensational tales on domestic, courtship, evangelical, ecumenical (within Protestantism), and anti-Catholic themes. Apart from her nearly fifty novels, she published a book of hymns and songs and a biography of Thomas Arnold . She was also the editor of and a frequent contributor to The Christian World Magazine from its inception in 1866 until shortly before her death.

Melnyk, Julie. “Emma Jane Worboise and The Christian World Magazine: Christian Publishing and Womens Empowerment”. Victorian Periodicals Review, Vol.

, No. 2, 1996, pp. 131-45.

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BirthName: Emma Jane Worboys
Self-constructed: Worboise
Married: Guyton
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Pseudonym: The Author of Grace Hamilton's School-Days, Heart's Ease in the Family, Kingsdown Lodge, etc.
She seems to have used reference to former novels in place of her name on her title-pages for the first decade or so of her career.
Indexed: Mrs Etherington Guyton, widow
This may have been a self-chosen name and not based on any actual marriage.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Milestones

20 April 1825

EJW , later an evangelical novelist and editor of The Christian World Magazine, was born in Legge Street, Birmingham, the eldest of her family.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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1887

EJW , who kept writing until her death, was about sixty-two when her final publication appeared: the novel His Next of Kin.

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24 August 1887

EJW , the evangelical novelist and editor of The Christian World Magazine, died at Clevedon in Somerset of the effects of alcoholism.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

Birth

20 April 1825

EJW , later an evangelical novelist and editor of The Christian World Magazine, was born in Legge Street, Birmingham, the eldest of her family.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.