The Seven Lives of Lady Barker is a full account of the rich and turbulent life of this extraordinary woman. With an eye for essential detail and the sure instinct of an artist, she does not waste a single word. Lady Barker wrote books for children and adults based upon her experiences, and is perhaps best known for Station Life in New Zealand, republished by Vintage in 2000. The author's style has a charm and freshness which the passage of a century has dimmed not a whit. Books by Lady Barker Station Life in New Zealand Starting at 4.00 Station Amusements in New Zealand Starting at 6.59 Life in South Africa Starting at 5.95 The Bedroom and the Boudoir (1878) Starting at 22. Station Life in New Zealand (1870) Travelling About Over Old and New Ground (1871) A Christmas. The story of three happy years of life together there is told in a series of letters. Name variations: Lady Mary Anne Barker Lady Broome. In 1865, the author and her second husband, Frederick Broome, reached Christchurch on their way to take up a sheep run, 45miles away in the foothills of the Souther Alps. Disaster struck with the great snowstorm of 1867, however, when they lost 4,000 out of 7,000 sheep. Glentunnel Museum, Canterbury, New Zealand Name/Titleġ883 ( Facsimile Edition, Wilson & Horton Ltd) Mary Anne (or Lady Barker as she still called herself) shared her husband's routine of writing in the mornings even as she threw herself with gusto into the outdoor life of the station.
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