author
Constance Belcher Larymore
A sharp-eyed travel memoirist of the early 20th century, she is best known for writing about her time in colonial Northern Nigeria. Her work blends everyday detail, observation, and personal experience into a vivid account of life far from home.
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A Resident's wife in Nigeria
by Constance Belcher Larymore
About the author
Constance Belcher Larymore is known for A Resident’s Wife in Nigeria, a memoir first published in 1908. In it, she writes about traveling to and living in Northern Nigeria, turning her experiences into a firsthand narrative of colonial life.
Library and public-domain records consistently credit her as the author of that book, and some catalog entries note that the original edition included illustrations, a map, and a portrait of the author. Beyond that, reliable biographical details appear to be scarce, so it is safest to remember her primarily through the book she left behind.
Today, her writing remains of interest to readers drawn to travel writing, memoir, and historical accounts of West Africa from a British resident’s perspective.