Author: Emma Rhodes
Author: Emma Rhodes (1835–1911)
Biography: Emma Rhodes was born in 1835 in Manchester, the youngest daughter of calico manufacturer and landowner Christopher Rhodes and his wife Anna. Her childhood was one of upper-class comfort. She never married and live with one or more relatives over the course of her life. In middle age, she turned to literature, writing two anonymously-published three-volume novels. Afterwards, she became an active poet particularly for the Argosy. Rhodes spent the last thirty years of her life living near Altrincham, Cheshire. She died on 19 October 1911 in Hale. Note: author identified in the Blackwood and Sons Archive.
References: British Census (1841, 1851, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901, 1911); Manchester Evening News (20 October 1911); VDPP
Fiction Titles:
- The White Rose of Chayleigh: A Novel. 3 vol. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1862.
- Ralph Redfern: A Novel. 3 vol. London: Saunders and Otley, 1868.
- Through the Railings. 1 vol. London: R. T. S., 1878.