She was born in Calvinia in a so-called "Nagmaalhuis" (Sunday House, for an outlying family attending church).
In a discussion with Gary Bowes Taylor in The Star newspaper (6 December 1977) she said: "We have so few works of a really high standard that it breaks one’s heart when one of them is put out of circulation.
Magersfontein is a closed book, it’s not easily accessible, it’s not easy to understand what Leroux has to say.
(…) Differences of opinion on a book are bound to arise, all the more need for experts to decide on literary matters.
Anna M. Louw died on 12 June 2003 in her apartment in Rondebosch, Cape Town.