CATHERINE LANGLOH PARKER 1856-1940


Catherine Eliza Somerville Stow (Field) published her collections under the name K Langloh Parker. While helping her husband run a property near Angledool in the late nineteenth century, she collected stories and other traditions from the Ualarai people which she published in a number of anthologies beginning with Australian Legendary Tales (1896).

 

Her papers are part of the collection of Marcie Muir in NLA at

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-380619618/findingaid

 

An ADB entry under the name Catherine Eliza (Katie) Stow at

https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/stow-catherine-eliza-katie-8691

also a Wikipedia entry


An assessment of her work at

http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/fff/pdfs/parker.pdf

 

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