British
author of popular Victorian ghost stories, Louisa Balwin spent
much of her adult life as a bedridden invalid. Her hatred of
idleness, combined with her imagination, led her to write. Her son
was Stanley Baldwin, who became the British prime minister.
Short Stories
The Shadow on the Blind and Other Ghost
Stories, Dent (London), 1895
(Including
"The Shadow on the Blind", "The Weird of the Walfords", "The
Uncanny Bairn", "Many Waters Cannot Quench Love", "How He Left the
Hotel", "The Real and the Counterfeit", My Next-Door Neighbour",
"The Empty Picture", "Sir Nifel Otterburne's Case".)
ditto, Ash-Tree Press (Ashcroft, British
Columbia), 2001 (This edition adds one previously uncollected
tale: "The Ticking of the Clock".)
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