Writing in the late nineteenth century at first in
Canada and later in
England, Annie Louisa Walker produced six novels, two books of poetry, a volume of plays for children and several short stories. She was one of
Margaret Oliphant's literary executors and edited her
Autobiography.
Milestones
About 1836 ALW was born in
Staffordshire, the youngest of three sisters.

By 15 November 1873 ALW published her first novel,
A Canadian Heroine, in three volumes, as 'the author of Leaves from the Backwoods'.

7 July 1907 ALW died in
Bath, aged around seventy.
