Mrs. C. J. Newby

Emma Newby, usually published as Mrs. C. J. Newby, was a 19th-century English novelist. Reference works available online identify her as Emma Barry Newby and note that she also wrote under the name Emma Warburton.

According to the Victorian Research author database, she was born in 1825 in Draycot Cerne, Wiltshire, the daughter of the Rev. Henry Barry, and died in 1899. Her fiction includes titles such as Mabel, Married: A Tale, Margaret Hamilton, Wondrous Strange, and Common Sense, showing a steady career in Victorian popular fiction.

Public-domain library listings and author pages suggest that her books circulated widely enough to survive in multiple digitized editions, even though she is not as well known today as many of her contemporaries. She is best approached as one of the many energetic novelists who helped fill the 19th-century reading market with domestic and relationship-centered stories.