Background
Louise de Kiriline Lawrence was born on January 30, 1894, in Sweden.
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Winner of the 1969 John Burroughs Medal From childhood Louise de Kiriline Lawrence dreamed of settling one day in an unspoiled, tranquil spot and living in harmony with nature. This beautifully written book is the story of her dream come true. Truly a labour of love, The Lovely and the Wild is the product of an exceptional woman's profound joy at being part of the limitless world of nature. Louise de Kiriline Lawrence passes over in a single sentence a fascinating life "which does not belong to this book." Born in Sweden, daughter of a naturalist, she served as a translator to an American military mission during the Russian Revolution, and was in charge of a Russian military hospital. She was a delegate of the Swedish Red Cross Expedition to the Volga region during the great famine of 1922 before emigrating to Canada.
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Louise de Kiriline Lawrence was born on January 30, 1894, in Sweden.
She was the most prolific contributor to the National Audubon Society magazine Audubon. He returned to Russia to fight in the Russian Civil War, and she followed him there. She worked as a nurse in Russia for several years while she searched for him.
In 1927 de Kiriline Lawrence emigrated to Canada and continued to work as a nurse
Stationed in rural northern Ontario, she became well known as the nurse to the Dionne quintuplets during the first year of their lives. She retired from nursing in 1935, and lived in a cabin in Northern Ontario.
By this time she had begun a new career as an ornithologist and nature writer She is recognized for her study of the red-eyed vireo, which identified the songbird as capable of producing 22,197 distinct calls in a single day.
De Kiriline Lawrence carried out the majority of her scientific work on her property, located outside of North Bay, Ontario.
( Winner of the 1969 John Burroughs Medal From childh...)
( "Lawrence was quite possibly the most remarkable woman ...)
She was an Elective Member of the American Ornithologists" Union and received an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Laurentian University in 1970.