![]() ![]() With an eye for essential detail and the sure instinct of an artist, she does not waste a single word. The author's style has a charm and freshness which the passage of a century has dimmed not a whit. Her 1982 book A Seachange: 145 years of New Zealand junior fiction won the PEN Best First. These letters are described in the Preface as 'the exact account of a lady's experience of the brighter and less practical side of colonisation'. The story of three happy years of life together there is told in a series of letters. She had her own review column in the New Zealand Herald for 25 years. 25 episodes Station Life in New Zealand is a collection of cheerful and interesting letters written by Lady Mary Anne Barker (nee Mary Anne Stewart) that is a New Zealand 'classic'. ![]() New Zealand edition (originally published. In 1865, the author and her second husband, Frederick Broome, reached Christchurch on their way to take up a sheep run, 45miles away in the foothills of the Souther Alps. This is a second-hand copy of the book Station Amusements in New Zealand by Lady Barker. Glentunnel Museum, Canterbury, New Zealand Name/Titleġ883 ( Facsimile Edition, Wilson & Horton Ltd) ![]()
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