Her widowed mother remarried, and Emma’s new stepfather, a schoolmaster, was apparently harsh and unsympathetic.Īfter graduating from her stepfather’s academy in 1835, Emma taught school for five years in the DC public school system. She would later recall that after her father’s death in 1824, her early life was filled with suffering and privation. The acronym was well-suited to the novelist-to-be and she used it throughout her career.Įmma was born in one of the twin townhouses that Founding Father George Washington had built on North Capitol Street in Washington, DC. Supposedly on his deathbed, her father, Captain Charles LeCompte Nevitte, persuaded a local priest to re-christen little Emma with two additional names so that her initials would spell out E.D.E.N. Born in Washington, DC in 1819, she was christened Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte.
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