Lady Barker (1831-1911), later Lady Broome after her second husband was knighted in 1884, was an author and correspondent for The Times. Best known for her first book Station Life in New Zealand (1870) in which she recounts her experiences on a sheep station in the 1860s, in 1875 she travelled with her husband to South Africa and this work published in 1877 gives an account of her time there.
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Lady Barker (1831-1911), later Lady Broome after her second husband was knighted in 1884, was an author and correspondent for The Times. Best known for her first book Station Life in New Zealand (1870) in which she recounts her experiences on a sheep station in the 1860s, in 1875 she travelled with her husband to South Africa and this work published in 1877 gives an account of her time there.
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