Subject of an awful awful book, by the Reverend Samuel Coley, in 1869. I recommend you don’t read it. But a pdf of the book is attached, just in case you want to disregard my well-meaning and informed advice.

We know a lot more about Emily (Emilia in the Chronicle). She was also of a religious bent, and ended up marrying the Reverend Thomas Collins, who was immortalised in a truly awful book by the Reverend Samuel Coley, in 1869. With a portrait and all. And when I say truly awful, I do indeed mean truly awful. I don't actually know why anybody bothered to write a book about Thomas Collins, and since the book's too bad to read, I probably won't learn. Anyway, Emily makes a number of appearances in this book. For me, the most intriguing sentence is “Stories, foolish and untrue, of her patrician relations somehow got disseminated by the newspapers at the time of her marriage". I would rather love to read these stories, so probably a trawl through the newspapers of the day is in order.

A quick search through this book reveals at least one son and two daughters. And a thoroughly self-righteous small-minded petty little clergyman, who never let his children wear nice clothes, although not entirely without humour. Poor Emily.

Emily died at 40 minutes past 12 pm, on Wednesday January 6, 1864, after a struggle with asthma and heart disease. At least one of her daughters, Emily, had died before her.