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...
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
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Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press, 2009.