Louise Wakeling

Her comments on the family governesses reflect her early awareness of her class status. Her paternal grandfather, William Cambridge , was a well-respected farmer and agriculturist, but his son Henry, AC 's father, did not...

Critics Margaret Bradstock and Louise Wakeling write that AC 's faith was strongly challenged by the deaths of her first two children: this was probably . . . the beginning of her questioning of Divine...

Although The Making of Rachel Rowe was not positively reviewed when it was first published, recent commentators like Margaret Bradstock and Louise Wakeling have praised the novel's compassionate depiction of Rachel's socially unacceptable status as...