Lady Emmeline Charlotte Elizabeth Stuart-Wortley (née Manners; 1806 – 20 October 1855) was an English poet and writer, best known for her ''Travels in the United States, etc. During 1849 and 1850''. She was editor of ''

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'' volumes for 1837 and 1840.''The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature'', 1940, vol. 1, p. 807 She was a daughter of

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, and his wife, the former

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. On 17 February 1831, married Hon.

Charles Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Charles James Stuart-Wortley (3 June 1802 – 22 May 1844) was a British politician, the second son of James Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 1st Baron Wharncliffe. He was an observer at the French siege of Antwerp in 1832, and wrote an account of the ...

, a son of

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. They had a daughter,

Victoria, Lady Welby Victoria, Lady Welby (27 April 1837 – 29 March 1912), more correctly Lady Welby-Gregory, was a self-educated British philosopher of language, musician and watercolourist. Life Welby was born to the Hon. Charles Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie a ...

. After the death of her husband in 1844, she began to travel as a wealthy Victorian widow, along with her daughter, Victoria. In October 1855, she died of

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in the area between Antioch and Beirut, while travelling through Ottoman Empire regions following the history of the early Christians.

Bibliography

*
Poems
' (London: John Murray, 1833) * ''London at Night, and other Poems'' (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1834) * ''Unloved of Earth, and other Poems'' (Murray, 1834) * ''The Knight and the Enchantress, with other Poems'' (Longman tc. 1835) *
The Village Churchyard; And Other Poems
' (Longman tc. 1835) *
Travelling Sketches in Rhyme
' (Longman tc. 1835) *
The Visionary, a Fragment, with other Poems
' (Longman tc. 1836–1839) *
Fragments and Fancies
' (London: Saunders and Otley, 1837) * ''Hours at Naples, and other Poems'' (Saunders and Otley, 1837) * ''Impressions of Italy and Other Poems'' (Saunders and Otley, 1837) *
Lays of Leisure Hours
', 2 vols. (London: Thomas Hookham, 1838) * ''Queen Berengaria's Courtesy, and other Poems'', 3 vols. (London: J. Rickerby, J. Hatchard and Son, 1838) * ''The Visionary. Canto III'' (Joseph Rickerby, 1839) *
Sonnets, written chiefly during a tour through Holland, Germany, Italy, Turkey, and Hungary
' (Joseph Rickerby, 1839) * ''Jairah, A Dramatic Mystery, and Other Poems'' (Joseph Rickerby, 1840) *
Eva: Or, The Error. A Play In Five Acts
' (Joseph Rickerby tc. 1840) * ''Lillia-Bianca. A Tale of Italy'' (Joseph Rickerby, 1841) * ''Alphonzo Algarves. A play in five acts in verse'' (Joseph Rickerby tc. 1841) *
Angiolina Del' Albano; Or, Truth And Treachery. A Play, In Five Acts
' (London: How and Parsons tc. 1841) *
The Maiden of Moscow: A Poem
' (How and Parsons, 1842) * ''Moonshine. A Comedy'' (London: W. S. Johnson, 1843) * ''Adelaida. Or Letters &c. of Madame Von Regenburg. To which are added Poems'' (London: Printed by Moyes and Barclay, 1843) * ''Ernest Mountjoy, a comedietta in three acts and in prose'' (London, 1844) * ''Little Bo-peep, with variations and illustrations'' (London: Joseph Cundall, 1846) * ''The Great Exhibition. Honour to labour, a Lay of 1851'' (W. N. Wright, 1851) *
On the approaching close of The Great Exhibition. And other poems
' (W. N. Wright, 1851) * ''Travels in the United States, etc.,: during 1849 and 1850'', 3 vols. (London: Richard Bentley, 1851) * Victoria_Welby.html" ;"title="Victoria,_Lady_Welby.html" ;"title="/nowiki>Victoria, Lady Welby">Victoria Welby">Victoria,_Lady_Welby.html" ;"title="/nowiki>Victoria, Lady Welby">Victoria Welby/nowiki> ''A young traveller's journal of a tour in North and South America during the year 1850'' (London: T. Bosworth, 1852) *
&c.
' (London: Thomas Bosworth, 1853) * ''La Estrella. Romanza'', sheet music, the words and music by Lady E.S. Wortley (London [1853]) * ''Al arma. Una cançion de guerra'', sheet music, the words and music by Lady E.S. Wortley (London [1853]) * ''The New Crystal Palace march founded on the song England for ever'', sheet music, arranged by T.W. Naumann (London

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*
A Visit to Portugal and Madeira
' (London: Chapman and Hall, 1854) * ''The sweet South'', 2 vols. (London: Printed for private circulation by G. Barclay, 1856) �
Vol. I

Vol. II

On Lady Emmeline Stuart-Wortley

* Mrs. Henry Cust, with a preface by

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, ''Wanderers: Episodes from the Travels of Lady Emmeline Stuart-Wortley and her daughter Victoria 1849-1855'' (London: Jonathan Cape, 1928)

References

External links

''Travels in the United States, etc.: During 1849 and 1850''
at U. of Michigan Library – photo images of interior pages
''The Maiden of Moscow: A Poem ...''
(1842) at U. of Virginia Library – online edition * {{DEFAULTSORT:Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, Emmeline 1806 births 1855 deaths Daughters of British dukes Deaths from dysentery English women poets

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 ...

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