Dictionary of Indian Biography/Roberts, Emma
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ROBERTS, EMMA (1794?–1840)
Daughter of Captain William Roberts: went to India in 1828 with a married sister, Mrs. R. A. McNaghten, on whose death, in 1831, she went to Calcutta and wrote for the Oriental Observer: went to India again in 1839: settled in Bombay and edited The Bombay United Service Gazette, and planned a book on the Bombay Presidency: died at Poona, Sep. 16, 1840. She wrote several works on India, including The East India Voyager, and an account of her overland voyage outwards.