The daughter of Sir John Thomas Stanley, Baronet; in 1810 she married Captain Digby Thomas Carpenter of the tenth regiment of infantry.

CORRESPONDENCE OF Emma Carpenter [née Stanley]:

Emma Stanley to Lady Morgan, 20 March 1809 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)