Emma Speed Sampson, (December 1, 1868 – May 7, 1947) was an American author of juvenile fiction and a movie censor.
[2] She and her husband and her sister, Nell Speed, moved to Richmond, Virginia which remained her permanent home.
She wrote several more books using the pseudonym Nell Speed when she switched publishers and began writing under her own name.
She wrote a sequel to 'Miss Minerva and William Green Hill' written by Frances Boyd Calhoun, titled Billy and the Major.
Sampson served on the Virginia board of motion picture censors and was a movie reviewer for the Richmond Times-Dispatch.