death_place death_date birth_place nationality birth_date genre article_title name occupation
edinburgh , scotland , u.k. 23 january 1920 edinburgh , scotland , u.k. scottish 15 december 1855 non-fiction , biography , folk-lore eve blantyre simpson
 eve blantyre simpson writer , historian , biographer
eve blantyre simpson

eve blantyre simpson -lrb- 1855 -- 1920 -rrb- was the daughter of professor james young simpson , who popularised the use of chloroform as an anaesthetic .
she wrote biographies of her father and of robert louis stevenson .
she also wrote a notable book on folk-lore in scotland which refers to the early traditions such as beltane .
she was born on 15 december 1855 in edinburgh and her mother was jessie grindlay .
-lrb- she was christened ` eve ' and not ` evelyn ' . -rrb-
she remained unmarried and died of liver cancer on 23 january 1920 at edinburgh .
