Emma Tatham

Her work is seldom read today, but she was regarded in the Victorian era as a prodigy and a poetic genius.

3 and 7) that her father's family came from West Witton, North Yorkshire, and kept an upholstery shop in Holborn.

[2] The family moved to 7 Addington Square, Margate in 1847, largely for the sake of Emma's health (p. 35).

He compared her with the French poet Eugénie de Guérin,[3] and remarked elsewhere that "she had a sincere vein of poetical feeling, a genuine aptitude for composition.

[5][2][6] Emma Tatham died in 1855 while on a visit to Redbourn, Hertfordshire, and was buried there in the graveyard of the Independent Chapel.