Louisa Lane Clarke

Louisa Lane Clarke (1812 – 8 November 1883) was a British botanist and travel writer, best known for her microscopy work on plants.

Early life

Louisa Lane was born in 1812 in the Channel Islands, the eldest daughter of Major-General 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 including:

  • Recollections and Legends of Serk[3]
  • Redstone's Guernsey Guide[4]
  • The Country Parson's Wife[5]
  • The New Parish Church of St. Ann (1850)
  • The Island of Alderney[6]

Scientific contributions

Louisa Lane Clarke is best known for her later botanical work popularizing microscopy.[7]

Louisa Lane Clarke's scientific works include:

  • 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]

Death

Her husband died in 1864 and she relocated to Guernsey with her daughter by the following year. She died in L'Hyvreuse, Guernsey.[7][1]

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References
  1. www.wlv.ac.uk, Ben Colbert, University of Wolverhampton. "Louisa Lane (Author) | British Travel Writing". www4.wlv.ac.uk. University of Wolverhampton. Retrieved 22 August 2018.
  2. "Guernsey Folk Lore". The Priaulx Library.
  3. Lane, L (1840). Recollections and Legends of Serk. General Books LLC. p. 24. ISBN 978-1151565020.
  4. Lane, L (1841). Redstone's Guernsey Guide, or, the Stranger's Companion for the Island of Guernsey. BiblioLife. ISBN 978-0554810768.
  5. Lane, L (1842). The Country Parson's Wife; Being Intended as a Continuation of and Companion for Herbert's Country Parson. ISBN 978-1290758246.
  6. Lane, L (1851). The Island of Alderney. ISBN 978-1375537322.
  7. Desmond, Rey (1977). Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturists including Plant Collectors and Botanical Artists. Taylor & Francis. pp. 150–51. ISBN 9780850660890.
  8. Lane Clark, L (1858). The microscope: being a popular description of the most instructive and beautiful subjects for exhibition. ISBN 978-1314715385.
  9. 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. Forgotten Books. ISBN 978-1527815667.
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