EMILY CHUBBUCK

'Emily Chubbuck' was born to poor parents in Eaton, New York on 23 August 1817 and died of consumption in Hamilton, New York on 1 June 1854. In 1834 she became a teacher and joined a Baptist church. In 1840 she entered the Utica female seminary. She wrote her first book, ''Charles Linn'' in 1841. In 1844 she developed a literary friendship with Nathaniel Willis. She described him as the 'foster-father' of my intellect. In the next two to three years she became known in the literary world under the pen name 'Fanny Forrester'.
She met Adoniram Judson in December 1845 on his only return to the United States. They married on 2 June 1846. On 11 July 1846 they sailed from Boston back to Burma where Adoniram had been a missionary for many years. Their daughter Sarah was born in 1847. A son Charles was born and died on the same day in 1850, three weeks after Adoniram's death at sea. After learning of his death, she returned in poor health to the United States in 1851. She collected materials for Adoniram's biography that was written by Francis Wayland, then resumed writing herself.

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Books Published

★ ''Charles Lynne, or How to Observe the Golden Rule'' 1841

★ ''The Great Secret'' 1842

★ ''Allan Lucas'' 1843

★ ''Alderbrook'' 1846 (a two volume collection of short stories originally published in magazines)

★ ''Trippings in Author Land'' 1846

★ ''Memoir of Mrs. Sarah B. Judson'' 1850

★ ''An Olio of Domestic Verses'' 1852

★ ''Kathayan Slave'' 1853

★ ''My Two Sisters'' 1854

References

★ Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol. III, , , , D. Appleton and Company, ,