Atkinson, Louisa (1834–1872)
Atkinson, Louisa (1834–1872)
Australian novelist and botanist. Name variations: Carolina Louisa Waring Atkinson; Carolina L.W. Calvert. Born Carolina Louisa Waring Atkinson, Feb 25, 1834, in Berrima, New South Wales, Australia; died April 28, 1872, 3 weeks after the birth of her daughter; dau. of James Atkinson; m. James Snowdon Calvert.
Self-taught student of natural history, wrote articles on botany and did botanical illustrations; had several plants named after her; as the 1st published Australian-born female novelist, wrote Gertrude the Emigrant: A Tale of Colonial Life (1857), Cowanda, the Veteran's Grant (1959), and Tom Hellicar's Children (1983).
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