Anna Brassey
Anna Brassey | |
|---|---|
 Anna Brassey[1] | |
| Born | Anna Allnut 1839 |
| Died | 1887 |
| Nationality | British |
| Known for | Travel writing |
| Spouse | Thomas Brassey |
| Children | five |
| Parent | John Allnut |
Anna Brassey (nee Allnut) (1839-1887)[2] was an English traveller and writer. Her bestselling book: A Voyage in the Sunbeam, our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months was published in 1878.
The daughter of John Allnut, she married the English member of parliament Sir Thomas Brassey (later Earl Brassey), with whom she lived near his Hastings constituency. The couple had five children together before they travelled aboard their luxury yacht Sunbeam. The number of people on board was 43.[4] Her book describing their journey around the world in 1876-7 ran through many English editions and was translated into at least five other languages. Her accounts of later voyages include Sunshine and Storm in the East (1880); In the Trades, the Tropics and the Roaring Forties (1885); and The Last Voyage (1889, published posthumously).
At home in England, she performed charitable work, largely for the St John Ambulance Association. Her collection of ethnographic and natural history material were shown in a museum at her husband's London house until they moved to Hastings Museum in 1919. She died of malaria and was buried at sea while on a voyage started in 1886 to improve her health.[1]
References
- ^ a b 'Lady Anna Brassey', National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 22 February 2008.
- ^ Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University, 2004)
- ^ Illustrations from A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam', by Annie Allnut Brassey
- ^ Lives of Girls who became famous, Sarah Knowles Bolton, accessed April 2009
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