Emily Manning


Emily Matilda Manning, pen-name Australie 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, and died in Blandville, Sydney, on 25 August 1890.
Australie Close, in the Canberra suburb of Gilmore, is named in her honour.

Novels