Marshall, Emma: Little Miss Joy. v1. 1 Apr 2014
 

Emma Marshall (1830–1899) was an English children's author who wrote more than 200 novels.Emma Marshall (as immensely prolific and popular in her own times, especially as a children's author;

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Perhaps the pale woman standing by the door of a small shop, the shutters of which were not yet taken down, was a fair specimen of her neighbours. She was tall, but drooped so much that her real height was lost. She had a sad face, where lines of care and anxiety had made a network perhaps earlier in life than wrinkles had any right to appear, if they should be traced by time rather than by sorrow. For Patience Harrison was not an old woman, and had scarcely entered her thirty-sixth year.