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She was born in New York, the eldest of the three children of Dr. James R. and Elizabeth (Post) Manley. The family was of English stock, with an admixture of Dutch.
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She was born in New York, the eldest of the three children of Dr. James R. and Elizabeth (Post) Manley. The family was of English stock, with an admixture of Dutch.
Her father, who attended Thomas Paine in his last illness, was a graduate in arts and medicine of Columbia College. From him Emma acquired her powers as a conversationalist and her enthusiasm for books.
In conformity with the genteel tradition of the time, she covered reams with her juvenile verse and stories, and when the New York Mirror was established she soon became one of its valued, but unremunerated, contributors.
Though she never claimed authorship as her profession, she produced a large quantity of poems, tales, and essays and was sought by editors as a contributor to their magazines. Several periodicals printed her name in the mast as a member of the editorial staff, although her actual connection appears to have been only that of a well-wisher.
Her books include Guido, a Tale; Sketches from History, and Other Poems (1828); Constance Latimer, or The Blind Girl, with Other Tales (1838); Pictures of Early Life, or Sketches of Youth (1830); American Wild Flowers in their Native Haunts (1845); Love's Token Flowers (1845); Glimpses of Home Life, or Causes and Consequences (1848); and The Waldorf Family, or Grandfather's Legend (1848). Since her death The Poems of Emma C. Embury (1869) and Selected Prose Writings of Mrs. Emma C. Embury (1893) have been published, and an address on "Female Education, " delivered before the Brooklyn Collegiate Institute for Young Ladies, was included in Anna C. Brackett's Woman and Higher Education (1893).
Book reviewers habitually confused Mrs. Embury's literary achievements with her virtues as a wife and mother and her charm as a hostess. Even Edgar Allan Poe, whose Southern chivalry was the weak spot in his critical armor, capitulated to her. In her verse, which has the vagueness of imagery, conventionality of theme, and unimpassioned fluency of all bad verse, he managed to detect "poetic capacity of no common order. "
With better judgment, perhaps, he praised her tales for their freshness and style.
Mrs. Embury is indeed an almost perfect representative of the golden age of the American "female poet. "
In 1848 a serious illness ended her career as an author and friend of authors. She lived almost fifteen years longer and for the last two years of her life was a complete invalid.
Embury was praised in her lifetime for writing works emphasizing domesticity and feminine virtue with moral messages appropriate for children. A critic for The United States Democratic Review, for example, wrote that her book Pictures of Early Life was "highly interesting and instructive; and of a character which should place it in the hands of youth, as well to instruct as to interest and amuse
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Quotations: "I make a point of reading all tales to which I see the name of Mrs. Embury appended. . .. She is not so vigorous as Mrs. Stephens, nor so vivacious as Miss Chubbuck, nor so caustic as Miss Leslie, nor so dignified as Miss Sedgwick, nor so graceful, fanciful, and spirituelle as Mrs. Osgood, but is deficient in none of the qualities for which these ladies are noted, and in certain particulars surpasses them all. "
Her literary reputation was already in bud when, on May 10, 1828, she married Daniel Embury, president of the Atlantic Bank of Brooklyn, a man of courtly manners and cultivated tastes. They were both fond of hospitality, and Mrs. Embury became the leader of a salon.
