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What is described in Lady Mary Anne Barkerās Station Life in New Zealand?
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Front cover of the Spiral Press first edition of Keri Hulme's The Bone People (1983).
Lady Mary Anne Barkerās Station Life in New Zealand (1870) is a factual account that provides a lively description of colonial life in New Zealand.12
The book chronicles her experiences during the three years she spent living on a sheep farm in the country with her husband, Frederick Napier Broome, before the couple returned to England. Within the context of 19th-century New Zealand literature, the work is recognized as a significant example of the journals and factual accounts produced by immigrant writers during the early period of European settlement.12