Louisa Anne Meredith

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LAM began publishing in England during the 1830s. Motivated by a strong love of nature and later inspired by her surroundings in Tasmania (where she arrived in 1840), she produced a total of twenty-one books, sixteen of which appeared following her marriage and immigration to Australasia. Her oeuvre consists of three autobiographical travel narratives, six illustrated books of verse on botany and natural history, four books for children, a novels, two works of poetry, and a number of essays and poems published in periodicals. She contributed significantly to the understanding of Australia—its landscape, its people, and its emergent identity—in the Victorian British imagination.
  • BirthName: Louisa Anne Twamley
  • Married: Meredith; Mrs Charles Meredith
    Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research, 1996.
    166: 259

Milestones

20 July 1812

Louisa Anne Twamley (later LAM ) was born at 47 Newhall Street in Birmingham, the only child of comparatively elderly parents.
Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research, 1996.
166: 259
Rae-Ellis, Vivienne. Louisa Anne Meredith: A Tigress in Exile. St David’s Park, 1990.
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1852

LAM published another autobiographical account of her trials in the new colony: My Home in Tasmania, During a Residence of Nine Years.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

1891

In her last book, Bush Friends in Tasmania, Native Flowers, Fruits and Insects, Drawn from Nature, with Prose Descriptions and Illustrations in Verse, LAM again took up a familiar subject and a version of a familiar title.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

21 October 1895

LAM died calmly and peacefully although in relative poverty in Melbourne, Australia, where she had recently arrived to live with friends.
Rae-Ellis, Vivienne. Louisa Anne Meredith: A Tigress in Exile. St David’s Park, 1990.
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Biography

Birth and Family

20 July 1812

Louisa Anne Twamley (later LAM ) was born at 47 Newhall Street in Birmingham, the only child of comparatively elderly parents.
Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research, 1996.
166: 259
Rae-Ellis, Vivienne. Louisa Anne Meredith: A Tigress in Exile. St David’s Park, 1990.
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