Lady (Mary Anne) Barker (1831-1911) wrote these letters to ôrecord the expeditions, adventures, and emergencies diversifying the daily life of the wife of a New Zealand sheep-farmer.ö It was a time in New Zealand when women shared with men the loneliness, difficulties and hazards of pioneering. Barker¿s letters show an excitement for her adventure in a new land and her delight in the things she saw.
Lady (Mary Anne) Barker (1831-1911) wrote these letters to ôrecord the expeditions, adventures, and emergencies diversifying the daily life of the wife of a New Zealand sheep-farmer.ö It was a time in New Zealand when women shared with men the loneliness, difficulties and hazards of pioneering. Barker¿s letters show an excitement for her adventure in a new land and her delight in the things she saw.
Preface 1. Two months at sea. Melbourne 2. Sight-seeing in Melbourne 3. On to New Zealand 4. First introduction to 'station life' 5. A pastoral letter 6. Society. Houses and servants 7. A young colonist. The town and its neighbourhood 8. Pleasant days at Ilam 9. Death in our new home. New Zealand children 10. Our station home 11. Housekeeping, and other matters 12. My first expedition 13. Bachelor hospitality. A gale on shore 14. A Christmas picnic, and other doings 15. Everyday station life 16. A sailing excursion on Lake Coleridge 17. My first and last experience of 'camping out' 18. A journey 'down south' 19. A christening gathering. The fate of Dick 20. The New Zealand snow-storm of 1867 21. Wild cattle hunting in the Kowai bush 22. The exceeding joy of 'burning' 23. Concerning a great flood 24. How we lost our horses and had to walk home.
Preface 1. Two months at sea. Melbourne 2. Sight-seeing in Melbourne 3. On to New Zealand 4. First introduction to 'station life' 5. A pastoral letter 6. Society. Houses and servants 7. A young colonist. The town and its neighbourhood 8. Pleasant days at Ilam 9. Death in our new home. New Zealand children 10. Our station home 11. Housekeeping, and other matters 12. My first expedition 13. Bachelor hospitality. A gale on shore 14. A Christmas picnic, and other doings 15. Everyday station life 16. A sailing excursion on Lake Coleridge 17. My first and last experience of 'camping out' 18. A journey 'down south' 19. A christening gathering. The fate of Dick 20. The New Zealand snow-storm of 1867 21. Wild cattle hunting in the Kowai bush 22. The exceeding joy of 'burning' 23. Concerning a great flood 24. How we lost our horses and had to walk home.
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