Emma Shaw Colcleugh

Emma Shaw Colcleugh (née, Shaw; September 3, 1846 – January 29, 1940) was an American author who lectured, traveled, and collected artifacts. Starting in 1895, she was a book reviewer and edited a department in The Providence Journal. She was a frequent contributor to the Boston Evening Transcript as well as several other prominent papers, her writings having attracted widespread attention. Her travel writing was sponsored by New England newspapers, which published her reports. Also a poet, her first poem was "New Year's Eve". Colcleugh was also the author of "World Wide Wisdom Words", a yearbook of proverbs.

Colcleugh's lectures regarding travels included "Up the Saskatchewan", "Through Hawaii with a Kodak", and "From Ocean to Ocean". She sold over 200 of the artifacts she collected during her travels to Rudolf F. Haffenreffer; these are held by the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology. Two islands in the Mackenzie River are named in her honor. Agnes Deans Cameron, Elizabeth Taylor, and Clara Coltman Rogers Vyvyan were Colcleugh's contemporaries in traveling through the Western Arctic. She affiliated with several clubs, including the New England Woman's Press Association, Rhode Island Woman's Club, Providence Fortnightly Club, Providence Mothers' Club, Sarah E. Doyle Club, and the Unity Club.

Her marriage to Frederick Colcleugh, the merchant and Canadian political figure, occurred at the age of 47. Colcleugh died in Florida in 1940.