Background
Guyton was born Emma Jane Worboys in Birmingham on 20 April 1825 to George Baddeley Worboys (c 1803–1867), a gunsmith, and his wife, Maria Lane (c 1807–post 1887).
Guyton was born Emma Jane Worboys in Birmingham on 20 April 1825 to George Baddeley Worboys (c 1803–1867), a gunsmith, and his wife, Maria Lane (c 1807–post 1887).
She attended boarding school and may have worked as a governess.
She was a lifelong Congregationalist. Though Guyton described herself late in life as the widow of a Mr Etherington Guyton, a Baptist minister of French descent, no evidence for the existence of such a person has been foundation She began to suffer from alcoholism, which brought about her death on 25 August 1887 at Clevedon, Somerset.