Emily Elizabeth Shaw Beavan (c. 1818-6 August 1897), was an Irish born 19th-century poet and story writer who lived in Canada, England and Australia.
She married Frederick Williams Cadwalleder Beavan on 19 June 1838 in Sussex Vale, Kings County,.
Her husband was the local surgeon and teacher and they lived initially in Long Creek, New Brunswick.
While she didn't use a pen name, she wrote under the common practice of dashing out letters from the name, Mrs B----n or Emily B----n.[1][2][3][4][5] In 1842 Beavan requested a teacher's licence for Queens County.
Her first book, Sketches and tales illustrative of life in the backwoods of New Brunswick, North America, was published while she was living in England in 1845.