| Emma Boultwood | |
| Pseudonym: | Emma Leslie |
| Birth Date: | 1838 |
| Birth Place: | Greenwich (southeast London), England |
| Death Date: | 1909 (aged 71) |
| Death Place: | Pembroke, Wales |
| Children: | 2 |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Genres: | Children's and historical books |
Emma Leslie was the pseudonym of Emma Boultwood (1838–1909), an English writer of children's books and historical fiction. She wrote more than one hundred books.[1]
Emma Boultwood was born in 1838 in Greenwich, Southeast London, the daughter of Thomas Boultwood, a bootmaker. For a time she worked as a governess.[1] She started writing in the 1860s, publishing children's and historical fiction for the Religious Tract Society and the Sunday School Union.[1] Her younger sister, Harriet Boultwood, also became a novelist, and wrote dozens of books for religious publishers.[2]
In 1873 Boultwood married Thomas Francis Dixon, and they had two sons.[1]
Though a longtime resident of Lewisham, in 1909 Boultwood Dixon died in Pembroke, Wales, and is buried there.[1]