# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/catherine-louisa-pirkis
# Generated: 2026-08-15T12:07:29.518Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/catherine-louisa-pirkis"
name: "Catherine Louisa Pirkis"
slug: "catherine-louisa-pirkis"
description: "Catherine Louisa Pirkis was a British author of detective fiction and animal welfare activist. Throughout her career as a writer, Pirkis would sometimes write under the name of C. L. Pirkis, to avoid gender association."
tagline: "British writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Catherne_Pirkis.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1841"
deathDate: "1910-10-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.41
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.745753333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Louisa_Pirkis"
    title: "Catherine Louisa Pirkis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Louisa_Pirkis"
    title: "Catherine Louisa Pirkis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Louisa_Pirkis"
    title: "Catherine Louisa Pirkis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Louisa_Pirkis"
    title: "Catherine Louisa Pirkis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5052790"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump