Marshall, Emma: Salome. v1. 2 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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Salome was the elder of two sisters, and she had one brother older than herself and three younger. Sorrow or change had as yet never come near Maplestone. The days went on in that serene happiness of which we are none of us conscious till it is over. When we hear the rustle of the angels’ wings, then we know they are leaving us for ever, and when with us we had not discerned their presence.