Emily Manning

Emily Manning
Born	Emily Matilda Manning (1845-05-13)13 May 1845 Sydney, New South Wales
Died	25 August 1890(1890-08-25) (aged 45) Sydney, New South Wales
Pen name	Australie
Language	English
Nationality	Australian
Years active	1872—1890

Emily Matilda Manning, pen-name Australie (13 May 1845 – 25 August 1890) was an Australian journalist and writer. [1]

Career

Manning was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, the daughter of William Montagu Manning.[1]

Manning married, in 1873, Henry Heron, a solicitor in Sydney. Having visited England, where she remained for two years and a half, she adopted literary pursuits, and contributed tales and essays to the Sydney Morning Herald and The Sydney Mail.[2] Manning exchanged poems with David Scott Mitchell in 1864, suggesting a romance between them.[1] She also published a volume of poems, entitled The Balance of Pain and Other Poems (George Bell & Sons: London, 1877),[2] and died in Blandville, Sydney, on 25 August 1890.[1]

Australie Close, in the Canberra suburb of Gilmore, is named in her honour.[3]

Bibliography

Novels

• Cupid on a Swiss Tour (1875)
• The Story of a Royal Pendulum (1890)

Poetry

• The Balance of Pain and Other Poems (1877)

References

1. O'Neill, Sally. "Manning, Emily Matilda (1845–1890)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
2. Mennell, Philip (1892). "Heron, Mrs. Henry" . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.
3. "Australian Capital Territory National Memorials Ordinance 1928 Determination — Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. Periodic (National : 1977–2011), p.17". Trove. 15 May 1987. Retrieved 7 February 2020.