The Seven Lives of Lady Barker

by Betty Gilderdale

hardback in excellent condition with dustjacket, publ 1996. 

Lady Barker is perhaps best known here in New Zealand for her book Station Life about living with her then husband on a sheep farm in NZ. But that was just one chapter of her life, and it was a remarkable life. Born in 1831, she lived through the abolition of slavery, the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny and the Zulu Wars - which all impacted on her personal life. She was a true Victorian woman of the colonies. But she was also an intelligent and independent thinker - at a time when women mostly fell in the shadows of their husbands. She wrote 18 books and had 6 children in her life.