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.
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or that in New Zealand when...
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.