Louisa was described as an anxious mother, shunning social contact just to be with her children during their formative years.
Her husband died of a brain tumour in 1928 in Dalhousie, India,[3] when she was 42, and Louisa decided to move her family to England.
[5] She moved again in 1935 with her eldest son, Lawrence, and his new wife, Nancy, to the island of Corfu, taking her other children with her.
Her youngest son, Gerald, wrote memoirs about this formative period of his childhood on Corfu, where flora and fauna abounded.
After the war, she lived for periods with her daughter Margaret, who had a boarding house in Bournemouth, as well as with Gerald at his home at the Jersey Zoo, founded with the proceeds from his books.