Lady Emmeline Stuart-Wortley née Manners (1806 – 20 October 1855) was an English poet and writer, best known for her Travels in the United States, etc. During 1849 and 1850. She was editor of The Keepsake in 1837 and 1840. She was a daughter of John Manners, 5th Duke of Rutland and on 17 February 1831, she married Hon. Charles Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, a son of James Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 1st Baron Wharncliffe. They had a daughter, Lady Victoria Welby.
After the death of her husband in 1844, she led a peripatetic life. She died of dysentery while travelling from Antioch to Beirut in 1855.
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