Papers of Barbara Baynton [manuscript]. 1907-1938.

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Papers of Barbara Baynton [manuscript]. 1907-1938.

This collection comprises personal correspondence, including letters from Ethel Curlewis and the infant "Jo" Gullett (1907, 1914, 1925); legal and financial papers, 1918-1938; and miscellaneous papers 1913 and 1929. Includes items on the judicial separation from Lord Headley (1924), Lady Headley's will (1928), selected pages from the published works written under the name Barbara Baynton, and newspaper cuttings.

5 cm. (94 items)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7068960

Libraries Australia

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Baynton, Barbara

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Barbara Janet Ainsleigh Kilpatrick, married Alexander Hay Frater. After raising a family of 2 sons and a daughter they were divorced in 1890. She married Dr. Thomas Baynton in the same year. Failing to find a publisher in Sydney, she visited London in 1902, where 'Bush studies' was published. In 1903 she returned to Sydney. Her husband, Dr. Baynton, died on the 10th of June 1904. She spent the next few years alternating between Australia and London, with her novel 'Human toll' published in Londo...