Mary Anne Barker
Mary Anne Barker, Lady Barker (29 Janairu 1831 - 6 Maris 1911), daga baya Mary Anne Broome, Lady Broome, marubuciya ce ta Ingilishi. Tayi rubutu yawanci game da rayuwa a New Zealand .

Farkon rayuwa da karatu
An haifi Mary Anne Stewart a Garin Mutanen Espanya, Jamaica, ita ce babbar 'yar Walter Steward, Sakataren Tsibirin Jamaica . Ta yi karatu a Ingila, kuma a cikin shekarar 1852 ta auri Kyaftin George Robert Barker na Royal Artillery, wanda ta haifi 'ya'ya biyu tare da shi. Lokacin da aka yi wa Barker jagoranci a Siege na Lucknow, Mary Anne ta zama "Lady Barker". Bayan watanni takwas Barker ya mutu.

A ranar ashirin da ɗaya ga Yuni 1865, Mary Anne Barker ta auri Frederick Napier Broome.  Ma'auratan sun tashi zuwa New Zealand, sun bar 'ya'yanta biyu a Ingila. An haifi ɗan fari na ma'auratan a Christchurch a cikin watan Fabrairu shekara ta 1866, amma ya mutu a watan Mayu. A wannan lokacin, sun koma tashar tumaki Steventon, wanda Broome ya haɗe da HP Hill don saya. Suka zauna a can har shekara uku; sun yi asarar fiye da rabin tumakinsu a cikin hunturu na shekarar 1867, kuma saboda wannan Broome ya sayar kuma ma'auratan suka koma London.

Dukansu Mary Anne da mijinta sai suka zama 'yan jarida. Har yanzu tana kiran kanta "Lady Barker", Mary Anne Broome ta zama wakiliyar The Times kuma ta buga littattafai guda biyu: Waƙoƙi daga New Zealand (1868) da Baƙo daga Seriphos (1869).

A cikin shekarar 1870, ta buga tashar Rayuwa a New Zealand, tarin wasiƙunta gida. Littafin ya yi nasara, ya bi ta cikin bugu da yawa kuma an fassara shi cikin Faransanci da Jamusanci. Ta yi tsokaci da cewa

 Maganar da aka saba yi a New Zealand ita ce, mutane suna mutuwa ne kawai daga nutsewa da buguwa. Ina jin tsoron cewa na farko shine gaba ɗaya sakamakon na ƙarshe. 

A cikin shekaru takwas masu zuwa, Lady Barker ta rubuta ƙarin littattafai goma, ciki har da cincin na Kirsimeti a cikin tsagu Hudu (1871), wani mabiyi na tashar Rayuwa mai suna Station Amusements a New Zealand (1873), da Darasi na Farko a cikin Ka'idodin dafa abinci (1874). Wannan laƙabi na ƙarshe ya kai ga nada ta Lady Sufeto na Makarantar Koyar da Abinci ta Ƙasa a Kudancin Kensington .

Lokacin da aka nada Frederick Broome Sakataren mulkin mallaka na Natal a shekarar 1875, Lady Barker ta raka shi a can. Nadin da Broome ya yi na mulkin mallaka ya sa shi tafiya zuwa Mauritius, Western Australia, Barbados, da Trinidad. Yin la'akari da waɗannan abubuwan, Lady Barker ta buga Aikin Gida na Shekara a Afirka ta Kudu (1877) da Wasika zuwa Guy (1885).

An nada Frederick Broome a ranar uku ga watan Yuli 1884, sannan Mary Anne ta kira kanta "Lady Broome". Ta buga na ƙarshe na littattafanta ashirin da biyu, Memories na Mulki a ƙarƙashin wannan sunan. Bayan mutuwar Sir Frederick Broome a 1896, Lady Broome ta koma London, ta mutu a can ranar shida ga watan Maris shekara ta 1911.

An binne ta tare da mijinta Frederick a gefen gabas na makabartar Highgate.

Ayyuka 

 Rayuwar tashar a New Zealand (Whitcomb da Tombs, 1870, sake buga 1950) 
 Abubuwan Nishaɗi na Tasha a New Zealand (1873)
 Aikin Gida na Shekara a Afirka ta Kudu (Macmillan, 1877) 
 Bedroom da Boudoir (1878)

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