Emmeline (also spelled Emiline, Emmilene, Emmaline, or Ameline) is a female given name. The medieval name, a short form of Germanic names beginning with the element amal meaning "work". It was introduced to England by the Normans.

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Emmeline Hawthorne Emmeline Hawthorne is a New Zealand actress who is known for her role as Anne Greenlaw on the long running New Zealand soap opera '' Shortland Street''. An acclaimed stage and screen actress, she played Hannah Priest in the television series ''J ...

(born 1980), New Zealand actress *

Emmaline Henry Emmaline Henry (November 1, 1928 – October 8, 1979) was an American actress best known for playing Amanda Bellows, the wife of Dr. Alfred Bellows, on the hit 1960s situation comedy ''I Dream of Jeannie''. Career Henry first appeared duri ...

(1928–1979), American actress * Emmeline Hill (born 1974), Irish geneticist * Emmeline Lott, British writer * Emmeline Ndongue (born 1983), French basketball player * Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928), British political activist *

Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence (; 21 October 1867 – 11 March 1954) was a British women's rights activist and suffragette. Early life Pethick-Lawrence was born in Bristol as Emmeline Pethick. Her father, Henry Pethick, ...

(1867–1954), British political activist * Emmeline Stuart-Wortley (1806–1855), British writer *

Emmeline B. Wells Emmeline Blanche Woodward Harris Whitney Wells (February 29, 1828 – April 25, 1921) was an American journalist, editor, poet, women's rights advocate, and diarist. She served as the fifth Relief Society General President of the Church of Jesus ...

(1828–1921), American writer

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Emmeline ''Emmeline, The Orphan of the Castle'' is the first novel written by English writer Charlotte Smith; it was published in 1788. A Cinderella story in which the heroine stands outside the traditional economic structures of English society and ...

, novel by Charlotte Turner Smith * Emmeline (book), by Judith Rossner * ''Emmeline'', an 1819 book by

Mary Brunton Mary Brunton (née Balfour) (1 November 1778 – 7 December 1818) was a Scottish novelist, whose work has been seen as redefining femininity. Fay Weldon praised it as "rich in invention, ripe with incident, shrewd in comment, and erotic in i ...

Emmeline (opera) ''Emmeline'' is an opera in two acts composed by American Tobias Picker with a libretto by J. D. McClatchy. Picker's first opera, it was commissioned by the Santa Fe Opera company and premiered in 1996. Based on Judith Rossner's novel of the sam ...

, composed by Tobias Picker with a libretto by JD McClatchy *Emmeline Lucas, fictional character also known as "Lucia", in the ''

Mapp and Lucia ''Mapp and Lucia'' is a 1931 comic novel written by E. F. Benson. It is the fourth of six novels in the popular Mapp and Lucia series, about idle women in the 1920s and their struggle for social dominance over their small communities. It bring ...

'' series *Emmeline Vance, fictional character and member of the Order of the Phoenix in the ''Harry Potter'' series *Emmeline Frost-Summers from Marvel Comics *Emmeline Lestrange, fictional character in '' The Blue Lagoon''

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