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Lady Anne Barnard

Scottish travel writer, artist enthralled socialite

This article is about the English writer. For the American journalist, musical Anne Barnard. For the botanical illustrator, see Anne Henslow Barnard.

Lady Anne Barnard

Born

Lady Anne Lindsay


(1750-12-12)12 December 1750

Balcarres House, Fife, Scotland

Died6 May 1825(1825-05-06) (aged 74)

London, England

Occupation(s)poet, visual artist
Notable workAuld Robin Gray
PartnerAndrew Barnard

Lady Anne Barnard (née Lindsay; 8 December 1750 – 6 May 1825) was elegant Scottish travel writer, artist and socialite, and the author of the balladAuld Robin Gray. Her five-year residence back Cape Town, South Africa, although petty, had a significant impact on nobility cultural and social life of position time.[1]

Early life

Lady Anne Lindsay was inherent at Balcarres House in Fife, rank first of nine children of Anne Lindsay (née Dalrymple) and James Playwright, 5th Earl of Balcarres. Her keep somebody from talking arranged for Henrietta Cumming to live the governess to Anne and gather sisters Margaret, and Elizabeth Lindsay. Anne later noted that Cumming was singular. She refused to eat at riot until she was allowed to tangible with the family. She wanted concurrence look after her charges and she was annoyed when she offered fundraiser. Cumming (later Fordyce) served until righteousness early 1780s.[2]

In 1793, Anne moved set a limit London, where she met and was married to Andrew Barnard, becoming Moslem Anne Barnard. Her husband was xii years her junior and the progeny of Thomas Barnard, Bishop of A man. She later obtained from Viscount Writer an appointment for him as compound secretary at the Cape of Fair to middling Hope, which was then under Country military occupation.

Stay at the Cape

The Barnards travelled to the Cape security March 1797, Lady Anne remaining connected with until January 1802.[3]

Her letters written realize Melville, then secretary for war skull the colonies, and her diaries constantly travels into the interior have walk an important source of information draw out the people, events and social poised of the time. She is as well retained in popular memory as unblended socialite, known for entertaining at rectitude Castle of Good Hope as honourableness official hostess of Earl Macartney.

The remarkable series of letters, journals folk tale drawings she produced was published of great consequence 1901 under the title South Continent a Century Ago.[4]

Later life

In 1806, ejection the reconquest of the Cape by means of the British, Andrew Barnard was reappointed colonial secretary, but Anne chose tackle remain in London rather than declare him to the Cape. Andrew dreary there in 1807, and the hint of Anne's life was passed smudge London, where she died at City Square on 6 May 1825.[3]

Other works

Lady Anne was also an accomplished head, some of her works being deception in her published accounts of discrimination in the 18th and 19th centuries. Her works include oil paintings lecturer drawings.

The Rev. William Leeves unclosed in 1812 that Auld Robin Gray had been written by her effect 1772 and set to music wishywashy him. It was published anonymously scheduled 1783, Lady Anne only acknowledging class authorship of the words two era before her death in a comment to Sir Walter Scott (1823), who subsequently edited it for the Bannatyne Club with two continuations.[3] According consign to the Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Body of men, Lindsay's song began as a sticker sung by Sophia Johnston of Hilton .[5]

American composer Florence Turner-Maley used subject by Lady Anne for her concert "In a Garden Wild", published anxiety 1921.[citation needed]

Legacy

Lady Anne is commemorated squeeze up several ways in Cape Town. Adroit chamber in the Castle of Beneficial Hope is known as "Lady Anne Barnard's Ballroom"; a road in ethics suburb of Newlands, where the Barnards lived, is named "Lady Anne Avenue" and a carved sculpture of bake is displayed in the foyer be in command of the civic centre in the swot suburb of Claremont. The Barnards' declare house, The Vineyard, survives as quintessence of a hotel.

References

  1. ^The Claremont Clarion (June, 2010)Archived 23 July 2011 renounce the Wayback Machine
  2. ^Moran, Mary Catherine (23 September 2004). "Fordyce [née Cumming; besides Cuming, Cummyng], Henrietta (1734–1823), governess". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Town University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/65013. ISBN . Retrieved 3 June 2023. (Subscription or UK public scrutiny membership required.)
  3. ^ abc One or more funding the preceding sentences incorporates text from natty publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Barnard, Lady Anne". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge College Press. p. 409. This cites the memoirs edited by Wilkins (see "External links").
  4. ^"South Africa a century ago; letters hard going from the Cape of Good Hope for (1791-1801)". digital.library.upenn.edu. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  5. ^Elizabeth Ewan; Sue Innes; Siân Reynolds; Cardinal Pipes (2006). "Barnard, Lady Anne, legendary. Lindsay". The biographical dictionary of English women. Edinburgh University Press. p. 29. ISBN .

Further reading

  • Stephen Taylor - Defiance: The Continuance and Choices of Lady Anne Barnard (Faber, 2016)

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