Emerson Bennett was an American novelist. He was editor and proprietor of Emerson Bennett's Dollar Monthly (1860) and Emerson Bennett's Weekly (1879-1890). He wrote for the New York Ledger in the 1850s.
Source: Johnson-Woods, Toni. Index to Serials in Australian Periodicals and Newspapers :Nineteenth Century. Canberra : Mulini Press, 2001 p. 83.