Annie Louisa Walker

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Writing in the late nineteenth century at first in Canada and later in England, ALW 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.
  • BirthName: Annie Louisa Walker
  • Married: Coghill; Mrs Harry Coghill
  • Pseudonym: The Author of Leaves from the Backwoods
  • Indexed: Annie L. Walker; Anna Louisa Walker

Milestones

About 1836

ALW was born in Staffordshire, the youngest of three sisters.
Cook, Ramsay, editor. Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. http://www.biographi.ca/index2.html.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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By 15 November 1873

ALW published her first novel, A Canadian Heroine, in three volumes, as the author of Leaves from the Backwoods.
Walker, Annie Louisa. A Canadian Heroine. Tinsley, 1873, 3 vols.
front matter
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2403 (1873): 621
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

March 1899

ALW , as Mrs Harry Coghill finished arrang[ing] and edit[ing]The Autobiography and Letters of Mrs. M. O. W. Oliphant, which appeared in print by the following month.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Leavis, Q. D., and Margaret Oliphant. “Introduction”. Autobiography and Letters of Mrs. Margaret Oliphant, edited by Annie Louisa Walker and Annie Louisa Walker, Leicester University Press, 1974, pp. 9-34.
[35], xi

7 July 1907

ALW died in Bath, aged around seventy.
Cook, Ramsay, editor. Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. http://www.biographi.ca/index2.html.

Biography

Birth, Family, Background

About 1836

ALW was born in Staffordshire, the youngest of three sisters.
Cook, Ramsay, editor. Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. http://www.biographi.ca/index2.html.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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