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Queen Emma of Hawaii

Emma Kalanikaumakaʻamano Kaleleonālani Naʻea Rooke (January 2, 1836 – April 25, 1885) was queen of Hawaii as the wife of King Kamehameha IV from 1856 to his death in 1863. She was later a candidate for the throne but King Kalākaua was elected instead.

Emma

June 19, 1856 – November 30, 1863

(1836-01-02)January 2, 1836
Honolulu, Oahu, Kingdom of Hawaii

April 25, 1885(1885-04-25) (aged 49)
Honolulu, Oahu, Kingdom of Hawaii

(1885-05-17)May 17, 1885[1][2]

Mauna ʻAla Royal Mausoleum

Kamehameha IV

Albert Edward Kauikeaouli Kaleiopapa a Kamehameha

Kamehameha

High Chief George Naʻea
Thomas Rooke (hānai)

High Chiefess Fanny Kekelaokalani Young
High Chiefess Grace Kamaʻikuʻi Young Rooke (hānai)

Church of Hawaii

Emma's signature

Names[edit]

After her son's death and before her husband's death, she was referred to as "Kaleleokalani", or "flight of the heavenly one". After her husband also died, it was changed into the plural form as "Kaleleonālani", or the "flight of the heavenly ones". She was baptized into the Anglican faith on October 21, 1862, as "Emma Alexandrina Francis Agnes Lowder Byde Rooke Young Kaleleokalani.[3]


Queen Emma was also honoured in the 19th century mele "Wahine Holo Lio" (horseback riding lady) referring to her renowned horsemanship.[4]

Dame Grand Cross of the Most Noble Order of Kamehameha I (04/02/1879).

(Queen Emma Summer Palace)

Hānaiakamalama

The Queen's Medical Center

A. I. (1866). (Second ed.). London. OCLC 1062251450.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

Queen Emma: A Narrative of the Object of Her Mission to England

Benton, Russell E. (1988). . Vol. 5, Mellen Studies in History. Lewiston, NY: E. Mellen Press. ISBN 978-0-88946-039-3. OCLC 1016183512.

Emma Naea Rooke (1836–1885), Beloved Queen of Hawaii

Bray, David Kaonohiokala; Low, Douglas (1990). The Kahuna Religion of Hawai'i. Garberville, CA: Borderland Sciences & Research Foundation, Inc.  978-0-945685-05-0. OCLC 25599949.

ISBN

Harper's Weekly (August 19, 1865). . Harper's Weekly, A Journal of Civilization. IX (451). New York: Harper & Brothers: 513, 518.

"Emma, Queen Dowager of Hawaii"

Harper's Weekly (August 25, 1866). . Harper's Weekly, A Journal of Civilization. X (504). New York: Harper & Brothers: 533, 541–542.

"Queen Emma in America"

Ing, Tiffany Lani (2019). Reclaiming Kalākaua: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives on a Hawaiian Sovereign. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.  978-0-8248-8156-6. OCLC 1085155006.

ISBN

(1888). Daggett, Rollin Mallory (ed.). The Legends and Myths of Hawaii: The Fables and Folk-lore of a Strange People. New York: C.L. Webster & Company. OCLC 1036300398.

Kalākaua, David

Korn, Alfons L.; Peterson, Barbara Bennett (2003). Emalani: Queen Emma Kaleleonālani. Honolulu: [[Daughters of Hawaii]] Publications Committee.  978-0-938851-14-1. OCLC 243602254.

ISBN

Mackenzie, Anne, ed. (1866). "Hawaiian Mission". . London: Lothian & Co. pp. 10–13, 17–24, 39–43, 57–60, 87–95, 123–128, 161–167.

The Net: Cast In Many Waters: Sketches From The Life Of Missionaries of 1866

(PDF). Hawaii State Archives.

Manuscript No. M-45, Queen Emma Collection Finding Aid

Obermer, Nesta; Larsen, Paul (1960). E Ola o Emmalani (Queen Emma speaks). Honolulu: The Queen's Hospital.  16332758.

OCLC

; Elbert, Samuel H. (1986). Hawaiian Dictionary: Hawaiian-English, English-Hawaiian. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-0703-0. OCLC 12751521.

Pukui, Mary Kawena

Queen Emma (2001). He lei no ʻEmalani. Translated by Puakea Nogelmeier. Honolulu: Queen Emma Foundation, Bishop Museum Press.  978-1-58178-009-3. OCLC 46991952.

ISBN

Queen Emma (2017). Forbes, David W. (ed.). . Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-5783-7. JSTOR j.ctvvmzwx. OCLC 1002258964.

In Haste with Aloha: Letters and Diaries of Queen Emma, 1881–1885

Rappolt, Miriam E. (1990). . Kailua, HI: Press Pacifica. ISBN 978-0-916630-68-3. OCLC 2270748.

Queen Emma: A Woman of Vision

Volkmar, Janine S. (1987). A Selected Bibliography on Queen Emma. Honolulu: Paper, University of Hawaii, Hamilton Library.  663423771.

OCLC

Walker, Jerry; Ahlo, Charles; (2016) [2000]. Kamehameha's Children Today. Honolulu: Native Books, Inc. ISBN 978-0-9967803-0-8. OCLC 1035718896.

Johnson, Rubellite Kawena

Jeffrey Bingham Mead (March 9, 2011). . 1860: Japanese Embassy to America Visits Hawaii. Retrieved July 5, 2015.

"Japanese Bow to Queen Emma, Western Women and Hoop Skirts in Hawaii"

. The Queen's Medical Center. Retrieved December 30, 2009.

"Biography of Founder Queen Emma"

Jessica from Pukalani. . My Hero web site. Retrieved February 1, 2010.

"Woman Hero: Queen Emma"

Will Hoover (July 2, 2006). . The Honolulu Advertiser. Retrieved February 1, 2010.

"Queen Emma"

at Find a Grave

Emma Kaleleonalani

Laurie Schoonmaker. . Horizons 2001. Kapiolani Community College. Archived from the original on June 9, 2010. Retrieved February 1, 2010.

"Thoughts of a Queen"

James Kiefer (October 1, 2009). . The Lectionary: A collection of Lectionary resources for the Episcopal Church.

"King Kamehameha and Queen Emma of Hawaii (28 NOV 1864)"