Surname: Parker (née Common) Forename(s): Emma Jane b. 1846. d. 26 January 1899. Nationality: English.
Poet. Author of *Summer Sonnets, and Other Verses* (1898). Married Dr. Joseph Parker
on 22 December 1864. Chambers’s Journal* ledger entry for Parker’s “A Love Secret,”
published on 30 January 1897, refers to her as Mrs. Parker and lists her address as
Tyneholme, Lyndhurst Gardens, So. Hampstead, London, N. W. (NLS Dep 341/371). Biographical
information: Reilly, *Late Victorian Poetry*, p. 369; “Joseph Parker” *Wikipedia*
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Parker_(theologian)> (6 March 2022); *Find a
Grave* <https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/174270157/emma-jane-parker> (6 March 2022);
Hugh Johnston, D. D., “A Morning with Dr. Joseph Parker,” *The Christian Advocate*,
vol. 76, 23 May 23 1901, p. 811. (AC, CC)