Emma Lyon | |
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Born | 17 September 1788 |
Died | 30 December 1870 London, England | (aged 82)
Genre | Poetry |
Literary movement | Romanticism |
Spouse |
Abraham Henry
(m. 1816; died 1840) |
Children | 10 |
Emma Henry (née Lyon; 17 September 1788 – 30 December 1870) was an English Jewish Romantic poet. Her volume Miscellaneous Poems (1812) was one of the first collections of poetry by a Jewish woman in English.[1]