Lifespan: 1834-1917
Nationality: English
Types of Work: Novels, short stories
Bio:
Emily Jolly was born in 1834 at Margate to Thomas Jolly, the mayor of Bath. She began writing as a young woman. Her first story, "A Wife's Story" was initially published in Dickens Household Words in 1855. She went on to write twelve novels until she gave up writing in the mid-1870s.
Emily never married. She spent a large part of her adult life living with Emily Dobell, the widow of poet Sydney Dobell, about whom she edited a biographical sketch. In 1900, she moved to Dorset where she remained until her death in 1917.
Novels:
A Wife's Story
Mr Arle: A Novel (1856)
Caste (1857)
Bond and Free (1860)
Entanglements: A Romance (1862)
Cumworth House (1864)
The Cypresses: A Romance (1865)
My Son's Wife (1867)
Pearl (1868)
Viola (1869)
Colonel Dacre (1873)
Safely Married (1874)