Emily Manning
Emily Matilda Manning, pen-names Australie and Ardea was an Australian journalist and writer.
Career
Manning was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, the daughter of William Montagu Manning.Manning married, in 1873, Henry Heron, a solicitor in Sydney. Having visited England, where she remained for two years and a half, she adopted literary pursuits, and contributed tales and essays to the Sydney Morning Herald and The Sydney Mail. Manning exchanged poems with David Scott Mitchell in 1864, suggesting a romance between them. She also published a volume of poems, entitled The Balance of Pain and Other Poems.
In 1885 her husband was declared of unsound mind and admitted to Gladesville Mental Hospital. His assets handed over to trustees.
Death and legacy
Manning died in Blandville, Sydney, on 25 August 1890.Australie Close, in the Canberra suburb of Gilmore, is named in her honour.
Novels
Cupid on a Swiss Tour- ''The Story of a Royal Pendulum''