Emilia Aylmer Blake, also known as Emilia Aylmer Gowing, (1846–1905) was a British dramatist, novelist and poet.

Blake was born Bath, 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, which includes her dramatic poem about the heroine Alice Ayres

Alice Ayres

Alice Ayres was an English nursemaid honoured for her bravery in rescuing the children in her care from a house fire. Ayres was a household assistant and nursemaid to the family of her brother-in-law and sister, Henry and Mary Ann Chandler...

. In 1877, Blake married the 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)