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Welsh novelist
Louisa Matilda Spooner's grave at St Cynhaearn's Church, Ynyscynhaearn. She is buried in the same grave as her parents.

Louisa Matilda Spooner, pseudonym L. M. S. (1820 – 5 December 1886), was a Welsh novelist. She was born in Maentwrog and baptised on 24 March 1820, the daughter of railway engineer James Spooner and his wife Elizabeth. She never married, and died in Portmadoc.

Her works include:

  • Gladys of Harlech (1858)
  • Country Landlords (1860)
  • The Welsh Heiress: A Novel (1868)

In her novels, she focused largely on topics relating to Wales and from a Welsh perspective. In Gladys of Harlech, Spooner used the backdrop of the Wars of the Roses to discuss Welshness in its relation to the English crown. In Country Landlords, she discussed landownership and republicanism in the nineteenth century, while The Welsh Heiress engages with the impact of alcoholism on farming communities. All of her novels are set vaguely in Merionethshire, the area where she spent the majority of her life.

References

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  7. Singer, Rita (2016-12-20). "Adapting the Risorgimento: Ideas of Liberal Nationhood in L. M. Spooner's Country Landlords (1860)". Women's Writing. 24 (4): 466–481. doi:10.1080/09699082.2016.1268342. ISSN 0969-9082.
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