Anna Brassey

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Anna Brassey, 1883
Photography: Alexander Bassano

Anna Brassey (born Allnutt ; born October 7, 1839 in London , † September 14, 1887 ) was a writer of the Victorian era .

Life

Anna Brassey, the only daughter of Elizabeth Harriet Allnutt (1819–1843) and the wealthy wine merchant John Allnut (1814–1881), lived with her father and grandfather in Clapham after the early death of her mother .

The writer became known for her travels, especially her eleven-month trip around the world in 1876/77 to South America , Japan , China , Singapore and Sri Lanka , which she and her husband Thomas Brassey jr. , her children and other guests on the yacht Sunbeam and whose literary processing she published in 1878 under the title A Voyage in the Sunbeam, our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months .

On her travels, Brassey collected numerous objects of historical and ethnographic interest, which were initially exhibited in her house in London from 1919 in the Hastings Museum .

During her last trip, en route from Australia to Mauritius via India , Brassey died of malaria ; she was buried at sea.

Anne Brassey was married to Thomas Brassey Jr., son of entrepreneur Thomas Brassey , since October 9, 1860 . She had five children with her husband.

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Her work A Voyage in the Sunbeam, our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months (1878) was reprinted several times and translated into at least five languages.

Other works:

  • Sunshine and Storm in the East (1880)
  • In the Trades, the Tropics and the Roaring Forties (1885)
  • The Last Voyage to India and Australia in the Sunbeam (posthumous, 1889)

literature

  • Nancy Micklewright: A Victorian traveler in the Middle East: the photography and travel writing of Annie Lady Brassey , 2003

Web links

Commons : Anna Brassey  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Trotamundas Press
  2. ↑ Lady Annie Brassey: Sunshine and storm in the East: or Cruises to Cyprus and Constantinople , pp. Ix.
  3. ↑ Nancy Micklewright: A Victorian traveler in the Middle East: the photography and travel writing of Annie Lady Brassey , 2003, p 21f.
  4. ^ The Brassey Collection, Hastings Museum ( Memento March 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Sarah Knowles Bolton: Lives of Girls Who Became Famous
  6. ^ National Portrait Gallery
  7. ↑ The Brassey Travels ( Memento of February 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Brassey, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brassey, Annie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION victorian writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1887