Alfred Baldwin

Louisa Macdonald married Alfred Baldwin at Wolverhampton in Staffordshire in a joint ceremony with her sister Agnes , who wed the painter and academician Edward Poynter .

Six months after the birth of her son and the onset of her illness, LB moved into her own bedroom, which she never shared with her husband .

On 13 February 1908, LB 's husband died from a heart attack. His death, according to family tradition, might have been expected to kill her, since her life had seemed to hang for...

The collection begins with a sonnet entitled Afterglow, which voices LB 's intense grief over losing her husband , and her attempt at religious resignation. It evokes a time when Thy storms had broken...