Emy Gordon

Emilie Caroline Albertine Gordon (née von Beulwitz) (6 March 1841 − 2 February 1909), known as Emy Gordon, was a German writer, translator and Catholic activist who was married to the Scottish diplomat George Gordon.

Family Gordon with her three eldest children at Ellon Castle in 1871.

Gordon was born in Cannstatt, near Stuttgart, to Hartmund von Beulwitz (1814−1871), a Protestant landowner, and his Catholic wife Nanette Riedlinger (1808−1869).

Gordon and her husband had four children, three of whom were born before their marriage:

Georgina Gordon (1866−1958) Robert Gordon (b. 1869) Richard Wolf Gordon (b. 1870) Louise Ignace Therese Julie Gordon (b. 1872)

After her husband inherited his father's estate at Ellon Castle in Scotland in 1873, the family lived there for several years before moving to the continent, residing first in Bruges in Belgium before settling permanently in Würzburg in Germany. She and her husband were married in a civil ceremony in Maastricht in the Netherlands in 1892, after her husband's first wife died.

Selected works Allerlei Malverfahren. Anleitung zur häuslichen Kunstarbeit für Anfänger (1888) New fairy-tales: for children young and old (1889) Henry Edward Manning: Religio viatoris. Die vier Grundsteine meines Glaubens (1889, translation) Lose Blätter aus Märchens Sammelmappe (1890) Praktischer Ratgeber für Erwerb suchende Frauen und Mädchen aus besseren Ständen (1893) Die Pflichten eines Dienstmädchens, oder: das A-B-C des Haushaltes (1894) Praktische Anweisung zur Ölmalerei in ihren verschiedenen Arten für Anfänger und Dilettanten (1899) Die katholische Kindergärtnerin in Schule und Haus (1902) Historisch-kritischer Rückblick auf die Verhandlungen des Internationalen Frauenkongresses in Berlin vom 12.–18. Juni 1904: Fingerzeige für die katholische Frauenbewegung (1905)