Louisa Baldwin

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Over the course of her writing career (during the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth), LB published four novels, two collections of children's stories, one collection of gothic ghost stories and a volume of poems and sonnets. Select poems and ghost stories also appeared in various periodicals.
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Baldwin, Louisa. The Shadow on the Blind, and Other Ghost Stories. J. M. Dent.
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Baldwin, Louisa. Afterglow. Methuen.
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Photograph of a painting of Louisa Baldwin by Edward Poynter. The background (patterned wallpaper, a painting on the wall, ornaments) is mostly blue. She sits in a carved black chair, wearing a simple black dress with four strands of blue beads around her neck, and a paper fan clasped in her hands.

Milestones

25 August 1845

Louisa Macdonald (later LB ) was born at Wakefield in Yorkshire.
Taylor, Ina. Victorian Sisters. Adler and Adler.
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November 1895

LB , as Mrs. Alfred Baldwin, published The Shadow on the Blind, and Other Ghost Stories.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Baldwin, Louisa. The Shadow on the Blind, and Other Ghost Stories. J. M. Dent.
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16 May 1925

LB died quietly of old age after many years as an invalid; her son was Prime Minister at the time.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Taylor, Ina. Victorian Sisters. Adler and Adler.
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Middlemas, Keith, and John Barnes. Baldwin: A Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicholson.
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Biography

Birth and Family

25 August 1845

Louisa Macdonald (later LB ) was born at Wakefield in Yorkshire.
Taylor, Ina. Victorian Sisters. Adler and Adler.
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