Louisa Annette Edla Drummond-Hay Brooks

Louisa Annette Edla Drummond-Hay Brooks is credited as the co-author of A Memoir of Sir John Drummond Hay, P.C., K.C.B., G.C.M.G., sometime minister at the court of Morocco, published in 1896. The book was written with Alice Emily Drummond-Hay and draws on the life and papers of Sir John Drummond Hay, the long-serving British representative in Morocco.

Although little biographical information about Brooks herself is easy to confirm, the surviving record of her work shows a writer closely connected to the Drummond-Hay family and to the history of British relations with Morocco in the nineteenth century. Her best-known book preserves both family memory and observations about Moroccan political and social life.

For modern listeners, Brooks is most notable as a careful memorialist rather than a prolific author. Her writing remains valuable for the way it turns one family story into a window onto diplomacy, travel, and everyday life across cultures.