Louisa M. Spooner
Louisa Matilda Spooner, pseudonym L. M. S. (1820 – 5 December 1886), was a Welsh novelist. Life She was born in Maentwrog and baptised on 24 March 1820, as the fifth of eventually ten children of her English parents James Spooner (1790–1856) and his first wife, Elizabeth (née Easton; 1787–1850). James was a surveyor and engineer and was hired by the Welsh entrepreneur William Madocks (1773–1826) to assist him with his grand land and town development plans.Singer, Rita. "Introduction" in Louisa Matilda Spooner (1860/2025). ''Country Landlords''. Her older brother Charles Easton Spooner (1818–1889) was the first of her siblings to be born in Wales. By the time the sixth Spooner child, Amelia (1824–1922), arrived, lodgings in Maentwrog became inevitably cramped and the family moved to Plas Tan yr Allt, William Madocks’ spacious former home in Tremadog. Louisa never married and always stayed close to her family throughout her adult life. After her mother’s d ...
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