Stella Blakemore (1906–1991) was a South African woman writer of Afrikaans youth novels.
Her mother, Emmarentia Susanna Catherina Krogh was a music teacher of Boer descent and her father was Captain Percy Harold Jenks Blakemore, an officer in the British Army.
In 1933 she married the Welshman David Owen, a civil engineer, in London, which was the start of a period of worldwide travel for her.
The lived, amongst other places, in Ghana, The Ivory Coast, Italy, England, Swaziland, Nigeria, Germany and Ireland.
[1][2] After completing high school she studied piano and singing at the Royal Academy of Music in London, as well as opera in Germany.