CHARLES, EMILY THORNTON (MRS.?): 1845-?
Emily Thornton , who wrote under the pseudonym of Emily Hawthorne, was born in Lafayette, Ind., on Mar. 21, 1845, and attended the Indianapolis public schools. At the age of sixteen she became a teacher. After the death of her husband (a Mr. Charles, whose given name is unknown) in 1874, she began to write for the Indianapolis papers. She later moved to Washington, D. C., where she was managing editor of the WASHINGTON WORLD and where she later died.
Information from Parker and Heiney–Poets and Poetry of Indiana.
- Hawthorn Blossoms. Philadelphia,
1876.
- Lyrical Poems, Songs, Pastorals, Roundelays, War Poems,
Madrigals. Philadelphia, 1886.
