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Emily Eden (1797—1869) was an English novelist who gave witty pictures of English life in the early 19th century.

Emily was born in Westminster. She was the seventh daughter of William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland, and the great-great-great-aunt of Anthony Eden. In her youth, she and her sister Fanny traveled to India, where her brother George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland was in residence there as Governor-General from 1835-42. She wrote accounts of her time in India, latter collected in the volume Up The Country: Letters Written to Her Sister from the Upper Provinces of India (1867). She also wrote two very successful novels, The Semi-Detached House (1859) and The Semi-Attached Couple (1860). The second novel, The Semi-Attached Couple, was written in 1829 but not published until 1860. Both novels have a comic touch that critics have compared with Jane Austen, who was Emily's favorite author. In addition, her letters were published by Violet Dickinson, a close friend of Virginia Woolf. Emily never married and was financially well off enough that she did not need to write but did so out of passion for the art.

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