Louisa Crow

Louisa Elizabeth Crow (née Fenn; 3 July 1826 – 1895) was a popular English writer of the 19th century. Her novels included An Honourable Estate, whilst her poetry and short stories featured in Once a Week and The Quiver. She was published for most of her career (1866 onward) at Bow Bells (London),^[1] after first publishing for John Dicks' cheap novel series.

Louisa Elizabeth Fenn was born in Pimlico to parents Charles and Louisa. She married Stehen Crow, a carpenter and innkeeper, in 1848 and had several children. In 1895, she died of influenza in Farnham, "literally in harness after forty years' continuous production of a long series of novels."^[2]

• A Twisted Link (1873)
• By Order of Queen Maude: A Story of Home Life (1887)
• Two Fates and a Fortune (1887)
• An Honourable Estate (1890)

• "The Roadside Inn" in Once a Week (1861)
• "Within Twenty Miles of London in the Nineteenth Century" in Once a Week (1861)
• "Our Lodgers from Abroad" in Once a Week (1861)
• "The Blacksmith of Holsby" in Once a Week (1864)
• "Gracie North" in The Quiver (1872)
• "A Merrie Christmas" in The Fine Art Annual for 1873 (1872)
• "In Vanity and Vexation: A North Country Story" in The Quiver (1880)
• "Whither Drifting" in The Quiver (1882)
• "Mollie's Maidens" in The Quiver (1885)
• "For Conscience' Sake"
• "His Steadfast Purpose"
• "Lost in the Winning"

• "Under the Fir-Trees: A Harvest Romance" in Once a Week (1861)
• ""An Hour with the Dead" in Once a Week (1861)
• "The Mill on the River Mole" in Once a Week (1861)
• "Richer Than Ever" in Once a Week (1861)
• "The Wild Flowers of Spring" in Once a Week (1862)
• "A Shadowed Life" in Once a Week (1862)
• "Twilight Dreams" in Once a Week (1863)
• "Seasonable Wooing" in Once a Week (1863)
• "On the River" in Once a Week (1863)
• "The Legend of Covenham Bridge" in Once a Week (1864)
• "The Bridal Eve" (1865)
• "Cassandra, of Troy" (1865)
• "Le Capitaine Paul" (1887)