
Station Life in New Zealand
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Station Life in New Zealand is a collection of cheerful and interesting letters written by Lady Mary Anne Barker (nee Mary Anne Stewart) that is a New Zealand "classic". These letters are described in the Preface as "the exact account of a lady's experience of the brighter and less practical side of colonisation". The letters were written between 1865 and 1868 and cover the time of her travel with her husband (Frederick Broomie) to New Zealand and life on a colonial sheep-station at their homestead "Broomielaw", located in the Province of Canterbury, South Island of New Zealand. Although these letters are written with great humour and fine story telling, her life was marred by tragedy while in Canterbury through the illness and eventual death of her baby son.
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Mary Anne Barker
New Zealand
Mary Anne Barker, Lady Barker later Mary Anne Broome, Lady Broome, was an English author. She wrote mainly about life in New Zealand. Born Mary Anne Stewart in Spanish Town, Jamaica, she was the elde...
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