Louis Esson

Thomas Louis Buvelot[a] Esson (10 August 1878 – 27 November 1943) was an Australian poet, journalist, critic and playwright.

His second wife, Hilda Esson (nee Bull), had a career in theatre besides working as a doctor in the field of public health.

Esson was born on 10 August 1878 at Leith in Edinburgh, Scotland, but moved to Melbourne, Australia, when he was three, along with his widowed mother.

He met Irish playwrights J. M. Synge (in Paris) and W. B. Yeats (in Dublin),[2] who suggested that he writes plays with Australian themes.

After marrying, she provided economic, intellectual and emotional support to her husband, and acted in Pioneer Players productions.