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Emily A. (Emily Augusta) Patmore
1824–1862
A Victorian writer remembered both for her own books and for the remarkable literary circle around her, she published children’s stories and poems under the name "Mrs. Motherly." She is also closely linked with Pre-Raphaelite art and with the ideals explored in Coventry Patmore’s famous poem The Angel in the House.
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The servant's behaviour book : or, Hints on manners and dress for maid servants in small households
by Emily A. (Emily Augusta) Patmore
About the author
Born Emily Augusta Andrews on February 29, 1824, she became an English author and later married the poet Coventry Patmore in 1847. Sources about her life consistently note that she wrote for children and published under the pseudonym Mrs. Motherly.
She is often remembered today not only as a writer but as a figure in Victorian literary and artistic culture. She was associated with the Pre-Raphaelites, and John Everett Millais painted her portrait in 1851. Her domestic life and marriage helped inspire Coventry Patmore’s long poem The Angel in the House, which made her an enduring cultural reference point in discussions of Victorian womanhood.
Emily Augusta Patmore died on July 5, 1862. Although her husband’s poem made her widely known, modern reference works also recognize her in her own right as an author whose life touched literature, art, and family history in nineteenth-century Britain.