About Emily Calvin Blake
Lived 1882 – 1951 (aged 68–69). Emily Calvin Blake was a writer.
Emily Calvin Blake (September 28, 1882 – April 29, 1951) was a British-born American writer.
She was born on September 28, 1882 in Manchester, England, the daughter of Thomas Calvin and Margaret Young Calvin. She married Chicagoan Walter R. Blake in 1904 and lived in Chicago most of her life.
Her book of short stories, Engaged Girl's Sketches (1910), earned some contemporary notoriety when it was learned it was purchased by Dorothy Arnold on the day of her disapperance. Her novel The Third Weaver (1929) follows Bohemian heronie Thaisa Worthington.
Emily Calvin Blake died on 29 April 1951 in Los Angeles.
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1882-; Manchester, England; ; ;
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Emily Calvin Blake died on 29 April 1951 in Los Angeles.
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