Louisa Parr

Louisa Sarah Ann Parr ( Taylor; – 2 November 1903) was a British writer who published some of her work under the name Mrs Olinthus Lobb.

Early years Louisa Sarah Ann Taylor was born in London in about 1848. She was brought up in Plymouth, as her father was a Naval officer.

Career Her first published writing was a success. It was published in English in 1868 in the evangelical magazine Good Words as "How it all happened",

On 16 November 1869 she married a surgeon and collector named George Parr and they lived in Kensington. The stories in this novel were based on fact as she re-used situations recorded in the History of Polperro which was written by Jonathan Couch in 1871.

Parr published several other books, but none was as successful as her "tour de force",

Selected works

Dorothy Fox (1870) Hero Carthew or The Prescotts of Pamphillon (1874) The Gosau Smithy (1875) Adam and Eve (1880) Robin (1882) Loyalty George (1888) Dumps and I (1891) The Squire (1892) Can This Be Love? (1893)