Louisa Watson Peat
Louisa Watson Peat, born Louisa Watson Small, (1883–1953) was an Irish-born writer and lecturer.[1][2]
Life and work
Born in Keady, County Armagh, Ireland, Louisa Peat attending Queens College in Belfast,[3] and also attended the University of London.
After graduation she worked in
Harold Peat sent for Miss Small to join him in
The couple lectured and toured, promoting their books. The Inexcusable Lie which was published in 1923, is a treatise against nationalism and destructive patriotism that wastes the youth of nations.
During the 1920s Louisa and Harold Peat traveled around North America on the Redpath
In the late 1920s or early 1930s, Louisa Peat settled in
After World War II, Louisa Peat published Canada, New World Power and in 1950 Grandma Did It This Way, Memories of an Irish Childhood.[9]
Louisa Watson Small Peat died in 1953 at
Publications
- Mrs. Private Peat (1918)
- Canada New World Power (1945)
- Grandma Did It This Way (1950)
- About Louisa Watson Peat
- Brush, Philippa Mary, 1999. "This feminine invasion": Women and the workplace in Canadian magazines, 1900–1930. Edmonton: PhD Diss., University of Alberta.
References
- ^ Kunitz, Stanley; Loizeaux, Marie Duvernoy, eds. (1952). Wilson Library Bulletin. Vol. 27. H.W. Wilson Company. p. 682.
- ISBN 978-0-88920-845-2.
- ^ (anecdotal as Queens College records were lost and do not exist for the period)
- ^ roll-of-honour.com
- ^ Gutenburg
- .
- ^ Library and Archives Canada, Quebec Passenger Lists, 1865-1922, Missanbie, landed 19 August 1916, at Quebec (online)
- ^ Edmonton Bulletin, 25 August 1916, page 2 (online)
- ^ Louisa Watson Small Peat (1950). Grandma did it this way. Holt.
- ProQuest 112762215.