Annie Barnett
Annie Barnett | |
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| Born | Annie Beeching 12 December 1861 Paddington, London, England |
| Died | 1941 (aged 79) London, England |
| Other names | Mrs. P. A. Barnett |
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| Spouse | Percy Arthur Barnett |
| Children | 1, including Charis Frankenburg |
| Relatives | Henry Beeching (brother) |
Annie Barnett (née Beeching; 12 December 1861 – 1941), who also used the name, Mrs. P. A. Barnett, was an English writer, editor, and suffragette.
Biography
Early life and education
Annie Beeching was born in Paddington, London, on 12 December 1861.[1] Her father worked as a bookseller and her brother was author Henry Beeching, dean of Norwich. She was educated at North London Collegiate school and later studied at London University.[2]
Career
Barnett edited a number of books of prose and verse, including works for children.[3] She also co-authored an epistolary novel, Drifting Thistledown.[4] The book was featured in The New York Times.[5]
Personal life and death
She married Percy Arthur Barnett (1858–1941) an educationalist and school inspector. They had a son, Denis, who died in the First World War,[6] and a daughter, Charis, who later became a writer and an activist for birth control. Barnett, who was a supporter of women's suffrage took her daughter to hear suffragette speakers in Hyde Park on multiple occasions.[2]
Barnett died in London in the second quarter of 1941, aged 79.[7]
Publications
- A Little Book of English Prose (London: Methuen & Co., 1900)
- Golden Numbers: A Book of Verse for Boys and Girls (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1907)
- Song and Story: Selections of Verse (A & C Black, 1907)
- The Children's Way: A Book of Verses About Children, Selected and Arranged by Mrs. P. A. Barnett (London: Jarrold & Sons, 1910)
- Drifting Thistledown (with "another", London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1910)
- An Anthology of Modern English Prose (1741 to 1892) (with Lucy Dale; London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1911)
- Stories from Hans Andersen: Selected and arranged by Mrs. P. A. Barnett (London: Macmillan & Co., 1911)
References
- ^ "Anne Barnett". 1939 England and Wales Register. Ancestry. 2018. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
- ^ a b Logan, Anne (8 August 2019), "Frankenburg [née Barnett], Charis Ursula (1892–1985), birth control campaigner and justice of the peace", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.369195, ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8, retrieved 17 March 2025
- ^ "'Mrs P. A. Barnett' - Search Results". WorldCat. Retrieved 17 March 2025.
- ^ "Drifting Thistledown by Barnett, P.A., Mrs. And Another: Very Good+ Hardcover (1910) 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s)". AbeBooks. Retrieved 17 March 2025.
- ^ "'Drifting Thistledown'". The New York Times. 11 June 1910. p. 27. Retrieved 17 March 2025.
- ^ "Denis Oliver Barnett 30/04/1895 - 16/08/1915". Bedales School. Retrieved 17 March 2025.
- ^ "Deaths Jun 1941". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 28 March 2025.