Lady Emma Caroline Wood (15 January 1802 – 15 December 1879) was a British novelist and artist.

Emma Wood had 13 children, including novelists Emma Barrett-Lennard and Anna Caroline Steel, Field Marshal Sir Henry Evelyn Wood and Katharine O'Shea, the mistress of Charles Stewart Parnell.

[2] In the 1830s, Emma Wood exhibited watercolour paintings and became a professional book illustrator.

She illustrated a book of poetry, Ephemera, that she and her daughter Anna published under the names Helen and Gabrielle Carr.

John Sutherland wrote about her Ruling the Roast (1874) that he suspected there was "an autobiographical element in the portrait of Myra Leith, the unhappy heroine...who unwisely marries the oafish clergyman son of an earl.