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.
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from friends...
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.
