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Author: Emily Sarah Baker

Author: Emily Sarah Baker (1841–1924)

Alternate Name(s): Redna Scott (pseudonym); E. S. B. (pseudonym)

Biography: Emily Sarah Baker was born in 1841 in Sudbury, Suffolk, the daughter of farmer William Baker and his wife Sarah. Her father died when she was young and thereafter she lived with her widowed mother or one of her siblings. In middle age, she turned to fiction with a novel Edith (1885) under the pseudonym "Redna Scott." The publication led to some disagreement with her publisher for which she appealed to the newly created Society of Authors for help. After a long break, she returned to writing at the end of the century and she continued on into the next. Her last years were spent in London. She never married and died there on 28 December 1924. Note: identified in the Society of Authors Archive.

References: British Census (1851, 1861, 1881, 1891, 1911); Literary Year-Book (1922); Probate

Fiction Titles:

1. Edith.  3 vol.  London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1885.
2. Jack Webster: A Christian Soldier.  1 vol.  London: S. P. C. K., 1899.
3. Joe Blake.  1 vol.  London: S. P. C. K., 1900.