Louise Jordan Miln

Born in Macomb, Illinois, on March 5, 1864, she first built a career on the stage under the name Louise Jordan before later becoming known as a writer and novelist after her marriage to the English actor George Crichton Miln.

Her years of travel strongly shaped her work. She and her husband toured in Asia, and those experiences fed into books such as When We Were Strolling Players in the East and Quaint Korea, as well as fiction including Mr. Wu. Across her writing, she was often interested in encounters between cultures and in the places she had visited.

She died in France on September 22, 1933. Today she is remembered for a body of work that connects performance, travel, and popular fiction from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.