Background
Marion Blake was born in New Britain, Connecticut, the daughter of Arthur C. Blake and Elizabeth Snow Blake.
Marion Blake was born in New Britain, Connecticut, the daughter of Arthur C. Blake and Elizabeth Snow Blake.
Mississippi Blake attended college at Mount Holyoke College, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1913, majoring in the Greek and Latin languages. Blake earned her Master of Arts degree (1917) and her Doctor of Philosophy degree (1921) from Cornell University.
Doctor Blake died in Rome, Italy, in 1961. Blake"s Blake was a professor of classical languages at a series of five American colleges during the years from 1912 through 1938: Illinois College (1921–1922), Converse College (1922–1928), Mount Holyoke College (1929–1936), Sweet Briar College (1936), and Winthrop College (1937–1938). The later work of Doctor Blake - that in Roman construction technology - was closely connected with that of Doctor Esther Boise Van Deman.
Doctor Blake took up the task of completing Doctor Van Deman"s unfinished manuscript on Roman construction technology following her death in 1937.
Ironically, Doctor Blake"s third and final book, Roman construction in Italy from Nerva through the Antonines, was completed after her own death in 1961 by yet another woman author, Doris Taylor Bishop (1917–1969).