Louisa Matilda Spooner's grave at St Cynhaearn's Church, Ynyscynhaearn. She is buried in the same grave as her parents.
Louisa Matilda Spooner, pseudonymL. M. S. (1820 – 5 December 1886), was a Welsh novelist.[1][2][3][4] She was born in Maentwrog and baptised on 24 March 1820, the daughter of railway engineer James Spooner and his wife Elizabeth.[5] She never married, and died in Portmadoc.
Her works include:
Gladys of Harlech (1858)
Country Landlords (1860)
The Welsh Heiress: A Novel (1868)
In her novels, she focused largely on topics relating to Wales and from a Welsh perspective. In Gladys of Harlech, Spooner used the backdrop of the Wars of the Roses to discuss Welshness in its relation to the English crown.[6] In Country Landlords, she discussed landownership and republicanism in the nineteenth century, while The Welsh Heiress engages with the impact of alcoholism on farming communities.[7][8] All of her novels are set vaguely in Merionethshire, the area where she spent the majority of her life.
