About Emily Ponsonby
Lived 1817 – 1877 (aged 60). Emily Ponsonby was a novelist.
Lady Emily Charlotte Mary Ponsonby (1817–1877) was a Victorian novelist.
Ponsonby wrote a number of novels telling tales set in the upper classes. She died on 3 February 1877 at her home in London.
Works The Discipline of Life (1848) Pride and Irresolution - a sequel Mary Gray, and other Tales and Verses (1852) Edward Willoughby (1854) The Young Lord (1856) Sunday Readings, Consisting of Eight Short Sermons Addressed to the Young (1857) A Mother's Trial (1859), Katherine and her Sisters (1861) Sir Owen Fairfax (1866) A Story of Two Cousins (1868) Olivia Beaumont and Lord Latimer
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Who was Emily Ponsonby?
Victorian novelist
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Emily Ponsonby was born on 17 January 1817.
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Emily Ponsonby died on 17 January 1877.
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Emily Ponsonby was a novelist.
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