Emma Roberts

Emma Roberts was an English travel writer and poet, born in London on March 27, 1791, and remembered especially for her writing about India. She spent important periods of her life in India with family members connected to military and colonial service, and those experiences shaped much of her published work.

Her books blended travel writing with sketches of daily life, society, and landscape, helping readers in Britain imagine places they would never see for themselves. She also wrote poetry and memoir-style work, and in her own day she was regarded as a successful literary figure rather than a minor curiosity.

Roberts died in Poona, India, on September 17, 1840. Although she is less widely read now than some of her contemporaries, she remains of interest for the way her writing captures British views of India in the early 19th century.