About Emilia Aylmer Blake
Lived 1846 – 1905 (aged 58–59). Emilia Aylmer Blake was a British playwright, novelist, stage actor and poet.
Emilia Aylmer Gowing (; 1846–1905), was a British dramatist, novelist and poet.
Blake was born in Bath, Somerset, England, the daughter of a Dublin lawyer. She was educated in England and France. She became known for her recitations and her poetry written for recitation, including her dramatic poem about heroine Alice Ayres. In 1877, Blake married actor William Gowing.
Works France Discrowned and other poems, Chapman and Hall, London, (1874) The Jewel Reputation My Only Love (1880) The Cithern Poems for Recitation (1886) An Unruly Spirit, V.F. White, London. (1890) Boadicea, a play in four acts, K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, London, (1899)
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British dramatist, novelist and poet
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Emilia Aylmer Blake was born in 1846 in Bath.
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Emilia Aylmer Blake died in 1905.
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Emilia Aylmer Blake was a playwright, novelist, stage actor and poet.
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