Mary Anne Barker
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Standard Name: Barker, Mary Anne
Birth Name: Mary Anne Stewart
Nickname: Annie
Titled: Lady Barker
Married Name: Mary Anne Broome
Married Name: Mrs Broome
Titled: Lady Broome
Lady Barker and Lady Broome) put her considerable talent to work during the 1870s in London journalism (reviewing, reporting, editing) and in miscellaneous writing: stories for children and adults, and books on domestic management and cookery. She had already written letters home from her earliest sojourns abroad. Turning her letters from in New Zealand into a highly successful travel book laid the foundation for the writing for which she is best remembered, vividly describing one far-flung corner after another of the British Empire.
(later Broome: she published both as