Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press, 2009.
86-7
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
Cultural formation | Mary Anne Barker | Brought up in the Church of England
, she drew deeply on her religious faith at such terrible times as that in India when her first husband died, Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press, 2009. 86-7 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Anne Barker | Sir Frederick Napier Broome
died in a London nursing home aged fifty-four, of massive infection caused by diabetes. His wife MAB
(now at last Lady Broome) was in constant, agonised attendance, just as when her... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Anne Barker | Before leaving Western Australia, Sir Frederick Napier Broome
had already developed diabetes. It was finally diagnosed in mid-1896, by which time he was rapidly deteriorating. Diagnosis brought no hope of cure. By the time he... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Anne Barker | After four years as a widow, MAB
married (at Prees in Shropshire) Frederick Napier Broome
, a clergyman's son who made his living as a sheep farmer in New Zealand. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Anne Barker | Back in London with her second husband
in 1869, MAB
embarked on a career in journalism, whose successful launch she attributed to the kindness of friends: George Grove
, editor of Macmillan's Magazine (whom... |
Other Life Event | Mary Anne Barker | An unprecedented fall of snow began, which wiped out sheep ranchers on the Canterbury Plains in New Zealand, MAB
and her second husband
among them. Half a million sheep perished in the snow and... |
Publishing | Mary Anne Barker | The Times opened an extraordinary collaboration by MAB
and her husband Frederick Broome
: in four nights and three days they produced a series of researched articles on pamphlets from the Franco-Prussian War. Broome, Sir Frederick Napier. “Tracts bearing on the War between France and Germany”. Times, translated by. Mary Anne Barker, No. 27177, 25 Sept. 1871, p. 4. 4 Barker, Mary Anne. Colonial Memories. Smith, Elder, 1904. xv-xvii |
Reception | Mary Louisa Molesworth | Mary Anne Barker
, sailing from England to join her husband
in Mauritius in early 1878, took a copy of The Cuckoo Clock which she had specially requested from her publisher, Macmillan
. Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press, 2009. 248 |
Residence | Mary Anne Barker | MAB
and her husband, Frederick Broome
, called their cottage at the sheep station, from their own name, Broomielaw. It stood in the Malvern Hills on the banks of the Selwyn River, attached... |
Residence | Mary Anne Barker | MAB
and her new husband
landed in Melbourne, Australia, after fifty-seven days out of sight of land: a very quick [voyage] for the immense distance traversed, sometimes under canvas, but generally steaming. Barker, Mary Anne. Station Life in New Zealand. Whitcombe and Tombs, 1950. 1 |
Residence | Mary Anne Barker | After the collapse of their sheep ranch, MAB
and her second husband
set sail from Lyttelton in New Zealand for England. There they heard many variants on we told you so Barker, Mary Anne. Colonial Memories. Smith, Elder, 1904. xiii |
Textual Production | Mary Anne Barker | MAB
published her first book of travel, Station Life in New Zealand (the station being the sheep farm run by her husband
and herself). The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html. 2201 (Jan 1, 1870):22 OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Textual Production | Mary Anne Barker | Her husband
contributed a two-page preface, saying that so far as they knew no collection of travels covered the last forty years, and that the author had been more than a mere copyist. |
Travel | Mary Anne Barker | The Edinburgh Castle, the ship carrying MAB
with her two babies and their nurse to join her husband
in Natal, dropped anchor at Cape Town after their sea voyage. Barker, Mary Anne. A Year’s Housekeeping in South Africa. Macmillan, 1877. 1 |
Travel | Mary Anne Barker | MAB
came ashore at the harbour of Port Louis on Mauritius (where her husband
was colonial secretary) after a journey of a couple of months from England. She gives the date correctly in the... |
No timeline events available.