Emily Burbank

Emily Burbank was an American author associated with practical, visually minded books about personal style and home design. She is credited with works including Woman as Decoration and The Art of Interior Decoration, books that reflect early 20th-century ideas about fashion, beauty, and domestic aesthetics.

Because readily available biographical information on her is limited, many standard details about her life are hard to confirm. What is clear from her published work is her interest in making style feel usable and deliberate, whether in the way a person dresses or the way a room is arranged.

Today, her books are often read not only as advice manuals from another era, but also as cultural snapshots of changing tastes in the years around the 1910s and 1920s.