About Eleanor Blakiston
Lived 1819 – 1879 (aged 59–60). Eleanor Blakiston was a novelist.
Eleanor Frances Blakiston (1819 – August 1, 1879) was a British novelist.
Eleanor Blakiston was born in 1819 at Mobberley Hall in Cheshire. She was the eldest daughter of Jane Wright and John Blakiston, second son of Sir Matthew Blakiston, 2nd Baronet, military memoirist, and survivor of the Vellore Mutiny. She published three romance novels in the 1860s. She died on 1 August 1879 in Knutsford. Hearts are Trumps. 2 vol. London: Saunders and Otley, 1862. Do Well and Doubt Not: A Novel. 3 vol. London: T. C. Newby, 1867.
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British novelist
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Eleanor Blakiston was born in 1819 in Mobberley Old Hall.
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Eleanor Blakiston died in 1879 in Knutsford.
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Eleanor Blakiston was a novelist.
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