A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Meredith, Louisa A.
MEREDITH, LOUISA A.,
Whose maiden name was Twamley, is an accomplished artist with her pencil, as well as an agreeable and well-informed writer. Her first publications were in the fashion of very elegant gift books;—"Our Wild Flowers," and "The Romance of Nature," illustrated by exquisite flowers copied from drawings after nature by the authoress. The literary matter is full of information, where science, free from pedantry, instructs in every page. After her marriage in 1844, she accompanied her husband to Australia, and the journey gave rise to "Notes and Sketches of New South Wales;" a book which cannot fail to please every intelligent reader. In 1852, Mrs. Meredith published a work in two volumes, entitled "My Home in Tasmania," which was dedicated to the Queen; it details her nine years experience of life in the remote colony in which her future lot appears to be cast, and consists of a series of charming sketches of life and nature executed with much graphic power and variety. To the Flora and Fauna of Tasmania the lively sketcher devotes particular attention, and enters with much enthusiasm into these agreeable and interesting branches of her subject.