Emy Gordon

[1] Gordon was born in Cannstatt, near Stuttgart, to Hartmund von Beulwitz (1814−1871), a Protestant landowner, and his Catholic wife Nanette Riedlinger (1808−1869).

[1] In the 1860s she began an affair with George John Robert Gordon (1812−1902), a Scottish diplomat serving as Britain's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Kingdom of Württemberg, who had been married to Rosa Justina Young (1817−1891) since 1843.

[1] In her later years Gordon published a number of books on home and family life, the most popular of which was Die Pflichten eines Dienstmädchens, oder: das A-B-C des Haushaltes (1894), a guide to the duties of the housewife.

In 1904 Gordon established a branch in Würzburg of the German Catholic Women's Association, a lay organisation founded the previous year in Cologne.

She attended the Second Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in Berlin in June 1904, and was the opening speaker at the 1907 Katholikentag in Würzburg.