Emily C. (Emily Clemens) Pearson

Emily Clemens Pearson was an American writer born in 1818 and active in the nineteenth century. Reliable reference sources identify her as a Connecticut writer whose books focused largely on slavery and antislavery themes, placing her among the many women authors who used fiction to take part in public debate before and during the Civil War.

Her best-known works include Cousin Franck's Household; or, Scenes in the Old Dominion and The Poor White; or, The Rebel Conscript. She also wrote on other subjects, including Gutenberg, and the Art of Printing, showing a range wider than her antislavery novels alone.

Pearson died in 1900. Although she is less widely remembered today than some of her contemporaries, her writing offers a clear window into how literature, reform, and everyday religious and political feeling came together in nineteenth-century America.