Louisa Capper was an English writer, philosopher and poet of the 19th century.
Background
Louisa Capper was born on 15 November 1776 at Fort Street George, Madras, India. She was the youngest daughter of Mary (nee Johnson) and Colonel James Capper, an officer in the army of the East India Company, known as a writer and meteorologist.
Career
She was the mother of two notable sons. She is chiefly remembered for writing An Abridgment of Locke"s Essay concerning the Human Understanding, published in 1811. A Poetical History of England (1810) is also attributed to Capper, being a versed history of England from Roman times to the start of the House of Hanover in 1714.
lieutenant ran to a second edition in 1815.
Her history was republished in 2012 as A poetical history of England. Written for the use of the young ladies educated at Rothbury-House School, etc, by the British Library.
They lived in quiet comfort, near enough to London to be in touch with cultural developments but in a pleasant country atmosphere. Rose Hill was a substantial household to run, of about 30 acres, with several indoor and outdoor servants.
The house itself, built in the 1820s, sat immediately above the Grand Junction Canal, which had opened in 1800.
The London and Birmingham Railway was constructed along the same valley during the 1830s, in the teeth of land-owners" opposition. (See also the Modern history of Hertfordshire) In the 1870s, Rose Hill was home to the civil engineer George Turnbull. lieutenant was demolished in 1952.
Robert Coningham"s widowed mother, born Elizabeth Campbell, lived with them.
Louisa Capper"s elder sister Marianne married Robert Clutterbuck, author of the county history of Hertford. The two married sisters lived near one another for many years.
Louisa was responsible for a happy and well-run home. One of her visitors was Jane Carlyle, who describes Rose Hill as a sort of Eden: "a perfect Paradise of a place, peopled as every Paradise ought to be with Angels", filled with "cheerful countenances" only too happy to cater for her every happiness.
She died on 25 May 1840 at Chorleywood and is buried at Rickmansworth, both in Hertfordshire.