Emma Hosken

Thomas Butterfill Hosken, the Rector of Llandefaelog Fach in Wales.

The couple had three children; her infant son and husband died of diphtheria in 1869 and 1870 respectively following which Hosken and her two daughters returned to Penryn to live with her mother.

[1] As a widow Hosken wrote two anonymous novels, Married for Money (1875) and Bitter to Sweet End (1877).

[2] In 1882 she married Bernard Barham Woodward (1854–1930), nine years her junior and the Librarian at the Natural History Museum but she died in July 1884.

[1] She is buried with her second husband Bernard Barham Woodward and his second wife in Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey.

The grave of Emma Hosken and Bernard Barham Woodward in Brookwood Cemetery .