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You can read about her varied life here:Īnd the full text is available at and as a Gutenberg Project free e-book Her adventures on the 'station' are well worth reading, even if by modern standards they seem blithely naïve her delight in setting fire to acres of native grassland to provide new pasture for the sheep would make a modern conservationist weep. Scribd is the world's largest social reading and publishing site. Read millions of eBooks and audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. (Except perhaps for sea-sickness "I find that sea-sickness develops the worst part of one's character with startling rapidity"). Read Station Life in New Zealand by Lady (Mary Anne) Barker with a free trial. She was a great optimist with an engaging manner, who saw fun in just about everything. It's attractiveness lies in great part in Lady Barker's own personality. It was an instant success, and has rarely been out of print since, one of the classics of NZ pioneer literature. "Station life" was published much later, when they had returned to England, but was based on Lady Barker's letters to her sister Jessie. Station Life in New Zealand by Lady Barker really liked it 4.00 Rating details 1 rating 0 reviews About the Book A Biographical work provides a detailed description of a person's life own like (autobiography), or that of another person's life (biography). She and her husband, Frederick Broome, bought a large farm (station) in the Malvern Hills of Canterbury during the first era of European settlement here. Mary Ann Barker was one of those intrepid Victorian women who managed to make a life of adventure while still staying perfectly proper. Just a bit more about Station life in New Zealand, by Lady Barker.
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