{"name": "Catherine Louisa Pirkis", "bio": "Catherine Louisa Pirkis was born in London, the daughter of Lewis Stephens Lyne, an accountant and comptroller-general of Inland Revenue. In 1872, at the age of 33, Pirkis married Frederick Edward Pirkis, fleet-paymaster for the Royal Navy, and the couple moved often. They had a daughter (born 1874 in Surrey) and a son (born 1876 in Belgium). Pirkis wrote her first novel, *Disappeared from Her Home*, in 1877; the mystery novel portends her creation of the popular lady detective **Loveday Brooke** in the 1890s. Thereafter she became a prolific novelist, short story writer, and journalist. Pirkis and her husband actively worked in the anti-vivisectionist movement and in organizations for the protection of animals, such as The National Canine Defense League. Pirkis died in 1910 after a long illness.\r\n- from victorianresearch.org", "personal_name": "Catherine Louisa Pirkis", "alternate_names": ["Catherine L. Pirkis", "Catherine Louisa Pirkis", "Mrs. F. E. Pirkis", "Catharine Louisa Pirkis", "C. L. Pirkis", "Catherine Lousia Pirkis", "Catherine Pirkis", "Louisa Catherine Pirkis"], "birth_date": "1839", "death_date": "1910", "key": "/authors/OL7898427A", "source_records": ["bwb:9781513272009", "amazon:151328195X"], "links": [{"title": "Biography at VictorianResearch.org", "url": "http://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/show_author.php?aid=632", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "remote_ids": {"wikidata": "Q5052790"}, "latest_revision": 3, "revision": 3, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2020-05-17T03:18:18.890720"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2022-07-22T04:28:23.394165"}}