Emily Manning
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| Born | Emily Matilda Manning 13 May 1845 Sydney, New South Wales |
| Died | 25 August 1890 (aged 45) Sydney, New South Wales |
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| Language | English |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Years active | 1872—1890 |
Emily Matilda Manning, pen-names Australie and Ardea[1] (13 May 1845 – 25 August 1890) was an Australian journalist and writer.[2]
Career
[edit]Manning was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, the daughter of William Montagu Manning.[2]
Manning married, in 1873, Henry Heron, a solicitor in Sydney. Having visited England, where she remained for two years and a half, she adopted literary pursuits, and contributed tales and essays to the Sydney Morning Herald and The Sydney Mail.[3] Manning exchanged poems with David Scott Mitchell in 1864, suggesting a romance between them.[2] She also published a volume of poems, entitled The Balance of Pain and Other Poems (George Bell & Sons: London, 1877).[3]
In 1885 her husband was declared of unsound mind and admitted to Gladesville Mental Hospital. His assets handed over to trustees.[4]
Death and legacy
[edit]Manning died in Blandville, Sydney, on 25 August 1890.[2]
Australie Close, in the Canberra suburb of Gilmore, is named in her honour.[5]
Bibliography
[edit]Novels
[edit]- Cupid on a Swiss Tour (1875)
- The Story of a Royal Pendulum (1890)
Poetry
[edit]- The Balance of Pain and Other Poems (1877)
References
[edit]- ^ "Table Talk". Table Talk. No. 243. Victoria, Australia. 14 February 1890. p. 2. Retrieved 27 February 2025 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ a b c d O'Neill, Sally. "Manning, Emily Matilda (1845–1890)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
- ^ a b Mennell, Philip (1892). . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ "The Bega Gazette". The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser. Vol. XXII, no. 78. New South Wales, Australia. 7 October 1885. p. 2. Retrieved 27 February 2025 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Australian Capital Territory National Memorials Ordinance 1928 Determination — Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. Periodic (National : 1977–2011), p.17". Trove. 15 May 1987. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
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