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E. W. (Emma Watts) Phillips

Best known today through a sea adventure novel set off the coast of Africa, this little-known Victorian writer also preserved the life story of her brother, the playwright Watts Phillips. Her work opens a small window onto 19th-century popular fiction and theater.

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Richard Galbraith, Mariner; Or, Life among the Kaffirs

Richard Galbraith, Mariner; Or, Life among the Kaffirs

by E. W. (Emma Watts) Phillips

About the author

Emma Watts Phillips wrote under the name E. W. Phillips. Project Gutenberg lists her as the author of Richard Galbraith, Mariner; Or, Life among the Kaffirs, a Victorian adventure novel, and several modern library and bookseller records use the fuller form E. W. (Emma Watts) Phillips.

She is also known for Watts Phillips: Artist and Playwright, published in 1891, a biography of her brother Watts Phillips. That book helped preserve details of his life and career as an English illustrator, novelist, and dramatist, including his connection with the play The Dead Heart.

Very little biographical information about Emma Watts Phillips herself was easy to confirm from reliable public sources, so her surviving reputation seems to rest mainly on these published works rather than on a well-documented personal history.