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.

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.
front matter
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2403 (1873): 621
OCLC WorldCat. 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. 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, 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.
240

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