This biography introduces Louisa Daniell, who, in her own day, was classed alongside Florence Nightingale as an inspirational, philanthropic lady.
Following a childhood conversion, Louisa married Lieutenant Frederick Daniell in 1834 and they sailed together to India. Only three years later she returned a widow with two young children.
Louisa firmly believed that God still had work for her to do. She wrote children’s books and proved, by establishing reading rooms and mission halls in several unevangelised Warwickshire villages, that God had gifted her with organisational skills alongside the ability to motivate others. These gifts were put to good use when she and her daughter, Georgiana, took on a work at the recently established military camp at Aldershot.
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