Louisa Lane Clarke (née Louisa Lane; 1812 – 8 November 1883) was a British botanist and travel writer, best known for her microscopy work on plants.
Louisa Lane Clarke | |
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| Born | Louisa Lane 1812 |
| Died | 8 November 1883 (aged 70–71) L'Hyvreuse, Saint Peter Port, Guernsey |
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Biography
editLouisa Lane was born in 1812 in the Channel Islands, the eldest daughter of Ambrose Lane and Elizabeth Lane, née Le Mesurier. On 14 September 1841, Lane married the Revd. Thomas Clarke (c. 1805 – 1864), Rector of Woodeaton, Oxfordshire. They then relocated to East Bergholt, Suffolk.[1][2]
Clarke wrote numerous travel guides. She is best known for her later botanical work popularizing microscopy.[3]
Her husband died in 1864 and she relocated to Guernsey with her daughter, Theodora, by the following year. Clarke died in L'Hyvreuse, Saint Peter Port, Guernsey.[3][1]
Selected works
editTravel guides
edit- Recollections and Legends of Serk[4]
- Redstone's Guernsey Guide[5]
- The Country Parson's Wife[6]
- The New Parish Church of St. Ann (1850)
- The Island of Alderney[7]
Scientific works
edit- The Microscope: Being a Popular Description of the Most Instructive and Beautiful Subjects for Exhibition[8] was published in successive editions into the 1880s.
- The Common Seaweeds of the British Coast and Channel Islands; with Some Insight into the Microscopic Beauties of Their Structure and Fructification[9]
References
edit- ^ a b Colbert, Benjamin. "Louisa Lane". British Travel Writing. University of Wolverhampton. Retrieved 19 February 2022.
- ^ "Guernsey Folk Lore". The Priaulx Library. Retrieved 19 February 2022.
- ^ a b Desmond, Rey (1977). Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturists including Plant Collectors and Botanical Artists. Taylor & Francis. pp. 150–51. ISBN 9780850660890.
- ^ Lane, L (1840). Recollections and Legends of Serk. General Books LLC. p. 24. ISBN 978-1151565020.
- ^ Lane, L (1841). Redstone's Guernsey Guide, or, the Stranger's Companion for the Island of Guernsey. BiblioLife. ISBN 978-0554810768.
- ^ Lane, L (1842). The Country Parson's Wife; Being Intended as a Continuation of and Companion for Herbert's Country Parson. ISBN 978-1290758246.
- ^ Lane, L (1851). The Island of Alderney. ISBN 978-1375537322.
- ^ Lane Clark, L (1858). The microscope: being a popular description of the most instructive and beautiful subjects for exhibition. ISBN 978-1314715385.
- ^ Lane Clark, L (1865). The Common Seaweeds of the British Coast and Channel Islands: With Some Insight Into the Microscopic Beauties of Their Structure and Fructification. Frederick Warne and Co. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.134970.