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.

Personal life In 1873 Boultwood married Thomas Francis Dixon, and they had two sons. Hayslope Grange: A Tale of the Civil War (1873) Charley's Log: A Story of Schoolboy's Life (1882) A Sailor's Lass (1886) Kate's Ordeal (1887) The Seed She Sowed: A Tale of the Great Dock Strike (1891) Eric, a Waif: A Story of Last Century (1892) Brave Bessie Westland: A Story of Quaker Persecution (1893) A Gypsy Against Her Will: or, Worth Her Weight in Gold (1893) Elsie's Scholarship, and Why She Surrendered it (1898) At the Sign of the Golden Fleece: A Story of Reformation Days (1900) That Scholarship Boy (1900) Arthur's Inheritance: or, How He Conquered (1901) Brought Out of Peril (1906) Saved by Love: A Story of London Streets (1913)