Eden

Eden, Emily (1797-1869), an English novelist and traveller, born at Westminster, the daughter of the first Baron Auckland. From 1835 to 1842 she was in India with her brother, who was Governor-General, and her sister, and on her return to England she published Portraits of the People and Princes of India. In 1866 she published Up the Country. Her novels are The Semi-detached House and The Semi-attached Couple, and she translated Marion de l'Orme into English blank verse.