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Emma Amy Rea (also called E.A. Rea, Amy Emma Rea, or Amy Rea, née Rose) (17 May 1864 – 12 Jan 1928) was an English mycologist, botanist, naturalist and illustrator.

Background and education
Emma was born in Hartlebury, Wychavon District, Worcestershire, England to father, John Rose, a Worcester solicitor and naturalist and mother, Emma Rose, née Phipps.

John Rose frequently attended the mycological meetings of the Yorkshire Naturalists and was a member of the Worcestershire Naturalists, and his daughter joined and attended as well. John was one of the founding members of the British Mycological Society, and so his daughter was among its early members and developed an early interest in mycology.

Marriage
She met Carleton Rea in the Worcestershire Naturalists club, where the became friends. They married in 22 Feb 1898 at the Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Worcester, England.

Natural history, mycology and artistry
Emma Amy Rea was a naturalist and mycologist, painting many watercolours now held in the mycology collections at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) of the fungi she and her family collected together.

She was elected president of the British Mycological Society in 1915.

Her paintings of fungi were used as references by Carleton Rea as he wrote British Basidiomycetae, published in 1922.

Illness and death
Following this illness, she died on the 12th of January, 1928. She was survived by her husband, Carleton, and her daughter Violet. She was interred at on the 16th January 1928 in a plot shared with her late father, John Rose, in Astwood Cemetery in the City of Worchester.

Selected works
GALLERY OF ART