Lady Barker

Lady Mary Anne Barker (1831–1911) was a Victorian writer born in Spanish Town, Jamaica, best known for her books Station Life in New Zealand (1870) and Station Amusements in New Zealand (1873), which vividly described colonial life on a Canterbury sheep station where she lived for three years with her second husband, Frederick Napier Broome.[1][2][6] She authored 22 books on travel, colonial experiences, children's stories, and cookery, drawing from her adventures across the British Empire including India, South Africa, Mauritius, Western Australia, and Trinidad.[3][4][5] After Broome was knighted in 1884, she published as Lady Broome, including her final work Colonial Memories (1904), and died in London in 1911.[1][2]