Louisa Lane Clarke
Louisa Lane Clarke (Louisa Lane; 1812 – 8 November 1883) was a British botanist and travel writer, best known for her microscopy work on plants.
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Louisa Lane Clarke
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- Name
- Louisa Lane Clarke
- Birth Name
- Louisa Lane
- Born
- 1812
- Birthplace
- Channel Islands
- Died
- 8 November 1883
- Place of death
- L'Hyvreuse, Saint Peter Port, Guernsey
- Known for
- * Plant microscopy
- Full name
- Louisa Jane Lane.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- Occupation
- illustrator, writer, botanist and microscopist.
- Languages
- English.
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Louisa Lane Clarke (Louisa Lane; 1812 – 8 November 1883) was a British botanist and travel writer, best known for her microscopy work on plants.
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• Name — Louisa Lane Clarke • Birth Name — Louisa Lane • Born — 1812 • Birthplace — Channel Islands • Died — 8 November 1883 • Place of death — L'Hyvreuse, Saint Peter Port, Guernsey • Known for — * Plant microscopy • Travel writing
Biography
Biography
Louisa Lane was born in 1812 in the Channel Islands, the eldest daughter of 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. Clarke wrote numerous travel guides. She is best known for her later botanical work popularizing microscopy. Her husband died in 1864 and she relocated to Guernsey with her daughter, Theodora, by the following year. Clarke died in L'Hyvreuse, Saint Peter Port, Guernsey.
Travel guides
Travel guides
• Recollections and Legends of Serk • Redstone's Guernsey Guide • The Country Parson's Wife • The New Parish Church of St. Ann (1850) • The Island of Alderney
Scientific works
Scientific works
• The Microscope: Being a Popular Description of the Most Instructive and Beautiful Subjects for Exhibition 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
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Saint Peter Port.
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- 1.Colbert, Benjamin. Louisa Lane. British Travel Writing. University of Wolverhampton.
- 2.Guernsey Folk Lore. The Priaulx Library.
- 3.Desmond, Rey. Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturists including Plant Collectors and Botanical Artists. Taylor & Francis. 150–51. 1977. 9780850660890.
- 4.Lane, L. Recollections and Legends of Serk. General Books LLC. 24. 1840. 978-1151565020.
- 5.Lane, L. Redstone's Guernsey Guide, or, the Stranger's Companion for the Island of Guernsey. BiblioLife. 1841. 978-0554810768.
- 6.Lane, L. The Country Parson's Wife; Being Intended as a Continuation of and Companion for Herbert's Country Parson. 1842. 978-1290758246.
- 7.Lane, L. The Island of Alderney. 1851. 978-1375537322.
- 8.Lane Clark, L. The microscope: being a popular description of the most instructive and beautiful subjects for exhibition. 1858. 978-1314715385.
- 9.Lane Clark, L. The Common Seaweeds of the British Coast and Channel Islands: With Some Insight Into the Microscopic Beauties of Their Structure and Fructification. Frederick Warne and Co. 1865. 10.5962/bhl.title.134970.
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