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Chargement... Station Life in New Zealand (1870)par Lady Barker
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Written in 1870, STATION LIFE IN NEW ZEALAND is a fascinating account of the time Lady Mary Anne Barker lived on a sheep station on the south island of New Zealand. It is just a series of letters that she wrote back to her family in England, starting with her arrival in MelbourneAustralia en route to Christchurch. It gives the reader a real insight into life as a settler in the 1860s, with all its highs and lows. I gripped my chair in sympathy as she is careened at high speed along the highway by a drunken passenger coach driver. I chuckled at her first attempts at cooking and I cried with her when her naughty dog has to be put down and when she has to help dig dead lambs from a snowdrift after a huge blizzard. Mary Anne writes in a light-hearted style, and she vividly portrayed the lives of genteel sheep farmers (and the not so genteel) the weather and the beautiful scenery and wildlife. Born in Jamaica, educated in England, her first husband Lord George Robert Barker was knighted for his role at the Siege of Lucknow in India. He died 8 months after receiving his title, however when Mary Anne arrived in New Zealand she was with her second husband, Frederick Broome. For her writing Mary Anne retained her Lady Barker title although later in life her second husband was knighted and she became Lady Broome. During her life Mary Anne lived in England, India, New Zealand, South Africa, Mauritius, Australia and Trinidad. A well travelled lady with some eighteen published works. STATION LIFE IN NEW ZEALAND is considered the best of the settlers’ tales from the years of colonization of New Zealand, and is a classic of early New Zealand literature. Opening Sentence: “…Now I must give you an account of our voyage: it has been a very quick one for the immense distance traversed, sometimes under canvas, but generally steaming…” Written in 1870, STATION LIFE IN NEW ZEALAND is a fascinating account of the time Lady Mary Anne Barker lived on a sheep station on the south island of New Zealand. It is just a series of letters that she wrote back to her family in England, starting with her arrival in MelbourneAustralia en route to Christchurch. It gives the reader a real insight into life as a settler in the 1860s, with all its highs and lows. I gripped my chair in sympathy as she is careened at high speed along the highway by a drunken passenger coach driver. I chuckled at her first attempts at cooking and I cried with her when her naughty dog has to be put down and when she has to help dig dead lambs from a snowdrift after a huge blizzard. Mary Anne writes in a light-hearted style, and she vividly portrayed the lives of genteel sheep farmers (and the not so genteel) the weather and the beautiful scenery and wildlife. Born in Jamaica, educated in England, her first husband Lord George Robert Barker was knighted for his role at the Siege of Lucknow in India. He died 8 months after receiving his title, however when Mary Anne arrived in New Zealand she was with her second husband, Frederick Broome. For her writing Mary Anne retained her Lady Barker title although later in life her second husband was knighted and she became Lady Broome. During her life Mary Anne lived in England, India, New Zealand, South Africa, Mauritius, Australia and Trinidad. A well travelled lady with some eighteen published works. STATION LIFE IN NEW ZEALAND is considered the best of the settlers’ tales from the years of colonization of New Zealand, and is a classic of early New Zealand literature.
This book is a very well-known New Zealand classic, originally published in 1870. Lady Barker came from England with her husband to manage a sheep station in Canterbury for three years. The account is written in the form of letters back to her sister in England. Lady Barker is a fascinating woman and much has been written about her. You can read her biography here and more about her here. For a full review with photos please visit here: https://livingpublications.wixsite.com... Est en version abrégée dans
Written by the adventurous and widely travelled Lady Mary Anne Barker (1831-1911), this 1870 publication records 'the expeditions, adventures, and emergencies diversifying the daily life of the wife of a New Zealand sheep farmer'. Born in Jamaica and educated in England and France, Barker married her second husband in 1865 and spent the next three years living on his sheep station on the South Island. This book is based on letters written to Barker's younger sister, beginning with an account of her two-month voyage to Melbourne and her onward journey via Nelson and Wellington to Christchurch. Barker vividly describes her domestic surroundings, friends, neighbours, servants, her first (and last) experience of camping, the Canterbury landscape and vegetation, and the 7,000 sheep on the farm. Her enthusiastic personal account of Victorian colonial expansion captures the 'delight and freedom of an existence so far from our own highly-wrought civilization'. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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She was also pretty adventurous and like a lot of women writers from past times she emphasises feminine fragility while taking on challenges that many modern-day people, male or female, might hesitate to confront. She bush-bashes, climbs hills, rescues sheep, and participates in burn-offs (the last maybe a little too enthusiastically). ( )