Emily Eden

Emily Eden (1797–1869) was an English novelist, letter writer and traveler, the daughter of the diplomat William Eden, first Baron Auckland. When her brother George, Lord Auckland, became Governor-General of India in 1836, she went with him as his hostess and spent six years there, recording a long journey through northern India in letters later published as Up the Country (1866). She also made portraits of Indian princes and courtiers, published as lithographs. Her novels The Semi-Detached House (1859) and The Semi-Attached Couple (1860) are witty comedies of upper-class manners. Her letters were collected by her great-niece in 1919.