Series 3: Barbara Baynton, pictorial material, ca 1860-1935, compiled by the Gullet family / copied by State Library of New South Wales, 1990

PXE 1583

series

1990

Graphic Materials, Photographs

904071

24 photographs - black & white - 6 x 8 in. ea.

Barbara Jane Lawrence was born 4 June 1857 at Scone, New South Wales, she became a governess with the Fraters at Merrylong Park, south of Quirindi. On 24 June 1880 at Tamworth Presbyterian Church she married Alexander Frater junior, a selector. Next year they moved to the Coonamble district, where she bore two sons and a daughter. but were divorced in March 1890. Next day at St Philip's Church of England, she married a 70-year-old widower Thomas Baynton.

A writer of Australian bush life, her books were published in the early 20th century. She also contributed articles to the Sydney Morning Herald on women's issues.

1. Barbara Lawrence, ca 1878

2. Barbara Baynton, ca 1892

3. Barbara Baynton, ca 1903

4. Barbara Baynton, ca 1905

5. The Frater children: Robert, Penelope, Alec.

6. Penelope and Alexander Frater on the verandah at Merrylong, New South Wales, ca 1860.

7. Tom Robert's portrait of Penelope Baynton from a newspaper cutting.

8. Viscountess Falkland, holding Henry Baynton Gullet in the garden of Ugley, Essex.

9. Viscountess Falkland, holding Henry Baynton Gullet, Penelope Gullet and Barbara Baynton in the garden of Ugley, Essex.

10. Alex Frater, Barbara's first husband, ca 1920.

11. Barbara, Lady Headley, London, ca 1921.

12. Barbara, Lady Headley, London, ca 1924.

13. Barbara, Lady Headley, Melbourne, ca 1927.

14. Henry Somer Gullett, ca 1916 (husband of Penelope).

15. The Australian Light Horse, perhaps in the grounds of Ugley, Essex.

16. The Lodge, Melbourne, ca 1928.

17. Dining room at The Lodge, Melbourne, ca 1928.

18. Drawing room at The Lodge, Melbourne, ca 1928.

19. Robert Frater, Barbara's son, England.

20. Aghadoe House, Killarney. Home of Lord and Lady Headley.

21-24. 4 unidentified photographs. Portrait of woman, portrait of woman and young boy, woman sitting at fire place, woman and child outside a home with thatched roof.

Forms part of MLOH 69/1-26, and MLMSS 5405

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Biography: Barbara Baynton, between two worlds / Penne Hackforth-Jones. Ringwood, Vic. : Penguin, 1989.

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