Lady Barker

English author who wrote about life in New Zealand

1831–1911 How To

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About Lady Barker

Mary Anne Barker, known as Lady Barker, was an English author who wrote mainly about life in New Zealand. After moving there with her husband she described sheep farming and colonial life in letters to her family, later printed as a book. She later married Frederick Napier Broome and became Lady Broome, living in several colonies. Her cookery writing was practical and clear.

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First Lessons in Principles of Cooking

Narrated by Clare Staniforth

In the 1870s Lady Barker found herself on a remote New Zealand sheep station with no idea how to cook. The cookbooks she found assumed she already knew the basics. So she...

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