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About Louisa Baldwin
Louisa was a writer who married the industrialist Alfred Baldwin in 1866 in a double wedding with her sister Agnes, who married Edward Poynter. Alfred and Louisa were the parents of Stanley Baldwin who was UK prime minister on three occasions. After his birth, Louisa seemed unhappy with her life in Worcestershire where her husband was an ironmaster. She had at least one miscarriage and spent time in a bath chair, and days alone in darkness. Later commentators have noted that she would recover when on holiday, and have proposed that her illness was a form of hypochondria. During the 1870s the couple travelled to find a cure, and she tried a wide variety of medicines. She recovered in 1883 and took a leading role in her local village of Wilden, near Stourport. In 1886 she published "A Martyr to Mammon" and in 1889, "The Story of a Marriage". She commissioned remarkable stained glass windows for Wilden church from Edward Burne-Jones. Her recovery did not outlast her husband's election to Parliament in 1902, and her condition was made worse by his death in 1908.
Louise was in time the grandmother to Oliver and Arthur Baldwin, respectively the second and third Earls Baldwin of Bewdley. Louisa wrote novels, short stories, and poetry, sometimes credited as "Mrs Alfred Baldwin".
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Louisa Baldwin's Timeline
| 1845 |
1845
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Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England
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| 1867 |
August 3, 1867
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Bewdley, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom
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| 1925 |
May 16, 1925
Age 80
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Wilden, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England
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