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Emma Henry (Lyon)

(1788-1870)

HENRY (Lyon), EMMA (1788–1870), English poet. The daughter of the Rev. S. Lyon, who opened at Cambridge England's first Jewish boarding school, Henry was one of the first English Jews to attract attention as a writer. Her Miscellaneous Poems (Oxford, 1812), dedicated to the Princess of Wales, carried a subscription list headed by the Prince Regent. Her son, Michael Henry, was an early editor of The Jewish Chronicle.


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