Author: Louisa Baldwin
Alternate names: Alfred Lee Baldwin; Alfred Baldwin; Alfred (Louisa), Mrs. Baldwin; Baldwin, Alfred Mrs; Baldwin, Alfred Mrs.; Louisa MacDonald
Title: Mrs.
Born: 1845
Died: 1925
Bio: A prolific writer of fiction and poetry, Louisa MacDonald was at the heart of late Victorian and Edwardian political and artistic society. The MacDonald sisters married into a number of influential families and Louisa's celebrated relations included the artist Edward Byrne-Jones, her brother-in-law, and Rudyard Kipling, her nephew. Her own marriage to Alfred Baldwin, the politician and industrialist, produced a son, Stanley, who later became Prime Minister.
Louisa Baldwin was a frequent contributor to Victorian short story magazines and, although much of her work was later published in book form, it is likely that further pieces await rediscovery. Following the tradition developed by Dickens and others, many of Baldwin's ghost stories were contributed to Christmas numbers. *The Shadow on the Blind and Other Ghost Stories* (1895) assembles the best of the author's magazine pieces in a single supernatural collection.

-- from *Shadows in the Attic: A Guide to British Supernatural Fiction 1820-1950*, Neil Wilson (2000)