![]() ![]() The book was reasonably successful, going through several editions and being translated into French and German. In 1870, she published her first book Station Life in New Zealand, a collection of her letters home. Still calling herself "Lady Barker", Mary Anne Broome became a correspondent for The Times, and also published two books of verse, Poems from New Zealand (1868) and The Stranger from Seriphos (1869). ![]() ![]() Both Mary Anne and her husband then became journalists. They remained there for three years they lost more than half their sheep in the winter of 1867, and in response Broome sold out and the couple returned to London. By this time, they had moved to the sheep station Steventon, which Broome had partnered with H. The couple's first child was born in Christchurch in February 1866, but died in May. The couple then sailed for New Zealand, leaving her two children in England. On 21 June 1865, Mary Anne Barker married Frederick Napier Broome. When Barker was knighted for his leadership at the Siege of Lucknow, Mary Anne became "Lady Barker". She was educated in England, and in 1852 married Captain George Robert Barker of the Royal Artillery, with whom she would have two children. Born Mary Anne Stewart in Spanish Town, Jamaica, she was the eldest daughter of Walter Stewart, Island Secretary of Jamaica. ![]()
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