Emily Augusta Patmore (née Andrews; 29 February 1824 – 5 July 1862) was a British author, Pre-Raphaelite muse and the inspiration for the 1854–1862 narrative poem The Angel in the House.

[3] Her younger brother Augustus Charles Andrews became a bank clerk and his daughter Mabel Barltrop became a religious leader and prophet.

[5] Her father was also a Latin, Greek and Hebrew tutor to John Ruskin,[6] who Emily and Eliza were later credited with introducing to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

[7][8] Emily Augusta Andrews met the poet and critic Coventry Patmore while living at her sister Eliza Orme's house following the 1841 death of their father, which had left the family destitute.

[6][9] Eliza had married Charles Orme, heir to a brewing fortune, and the couple's home in Regent's Park in London was a noted gathering place for the Pre-Raphaelite movement.

Patmore was far more high church in his religious leanings and it is thought that he remained a practising Anglican during Emily's lifetime out of respect for her wishes.

She was portrayed on a medallion by Thomas Woolner, and was the subject of a painting by John Everett Millais entitled Mrs. Coventry Patmore in 1851, now in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.