Emily Otis (; 1807–1836), familiarly known as "The Beautiful Emily Marshall" and "The Belle of Boston", was an American woman celebrated for her beauty, grace, dignity, and feminine charm.Brooks 1901, p. 269.
Personal life
She married William Foster Otis in May 1831 and died in 1836, leaving two daughters and an infant son.Peacock 1901, p. 101
Fame
"Emily Marshall as completely filled the ideal of the lovely and feminine, as did Webster the ideal of the intellectual and the masculine," Josiah Quincy, a native of the same State, wrote of her, adding that though superlatives were intended only for the use of the very young, not even the cooling influences of half a century enabled him to avoid them in speaking of her.Peacock 1901, p. 90.
Daniel Webster, upon one occasion during his residence in Boston, entered the old Federal Street Theatre and was hailed with cheers. A few minutes later. Emily Marshall appeared in her box, whereupon the entire audience rose as one man and offered her the same homage it had bestowed upon Webster.Peacock 1901, pp. 90–91.
References
Sources Brooks, Geraldine (1901). Dames and Daughters of the Young Republic. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. pp. 269–287. Peacock, Virginia Tatnall (1901). Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century. Philadelphia & London: J. B. Lippincott Co. pp. 90–101.