K. Langloh Parker, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

K. Langloh Parker

Australian writer, collector of Aboriginal legends

Date of Birth: 01-May-1856

Place of Birth: Encounter Bay, South Australia, Australia

Date of Death: 27-Mar-1940

Profession: writer

Nationality: United Kingdom, Australia

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Catherine Eliza Somerville Stow (1 May 1856 – 27 March 1940), who wrote as K.
Langloh Parker, was a South Australian born writer who lived in northern New South Wales in the late nineteenth century.
She is best known for recording the stories of the Ualarai around her.
Her testimony is one of the best accounts of the beliefs and stories of an Aboriginal people in north-west New South Wales at that time.
However, her accounts reflect European attitudes of the time.