Emma Roberts

Born on March 27, 1791, Emma Roberts was an English writer best known for travel writing and poetry connected with India. She is often referred to as "Miss Emma Roberts," and was well regarded in her own day for her literary work.

After her father's death, she lived with her family in Bath, and later traveled to India with her sister after their mother's death. That experience shaped much of her writing. Her books include Oriental Scenes, Scenes and Characteristics of Hindostan, and Views in India, works that mix description, reflection, and close observation of social life.

She died in India on September 17, 1840. Although she is not as widely read now as some of her contemporaries, her writing remains valuable for the picture it gives of British India and for the place she holds as a woman travel writer of the early 19th century.