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Mrs Alfred (Louisa) Baldwin, most readers today know Louisa Baldwin primarily through her connection to British political history, her son Stanley Baldwin served as prime minister during the tumultuous period of Edward VIII's abdication. But Louisa herself led a far more private life, one marked by a mysterious illness that kept her bedridden for much of her adulthood. Confined to her room but never idle, she channeled her active imagination into various artistic pursuits, eventually finding her voice in the written word. In 1895, she published The Shadow on the Blind, a collection of nine supernatural tales that would become her literary legacy.