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Emily Churchill Thompson Sheets

b. 1875

An early-20th-century writer remembered for vivid stories set in India, she published a single known book that blends fiction with close observation of place, custom, and belief.

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In Kali's Country: Tales from Sunny India

In Kali's Country: Tales from Sunny India

by Emily Churchill Thompson Sheets

About the author

Emily Churchill Thompson Sheets was an American author born in 1875. Reliable catalog and digitized-book records consistently connect her with In Kali's Country: Tales from Sunny India, published by Fleming H. Revell Company in 1910.

The book is a collection of short stories set in India, and surviving editions credit illustrations by Elma McNeal Childs. The text itself also preserves a few personal details: it appears under the name Emily T. Sheets and is dedicated to her mother, Jane Churchill Thompson, and her father, William H. Thompson, Jr.

Beyond that, confirmed biographical information is scarce. What remains clear is that her work has stayed in circulation through library archives and Project Gutenberg, giving modern readers a glimpse of how one early-1900s writer imagined and narrated life in India.