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Lady Brassey (1839–1887)

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Annie (Allnut) Brassey (1839-1887) was an English adventurer, writer, and humanitarian. She was married to Thomas Brassey, a British railroad heir and MP. Her granddaughter, Idina Sackville, was the subject of Frances Osborne's best-selling biography, The Bolter (Knopf, 2009). Ms. Brassey died at mehr anzeigen the age of 48 of malaria while at sea. weniger anzeigen
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Andere Namen
Brassey, Anna Allnutt
Brassey, Anna Allnutt Brassey, Baroness
Geburtstag
1839-10-07
Todestag
1887-09-14
Begräbnisort
At sea
Geschlecht
female
Nationalität
UK
Geburtsort
London, England, UK
Sterbeort
Thursday Island, Queensland, Australia
Wohnorte
Sunbeam (yacht, circumnavigating the globe|1876-1877)
Hastings, England
Berufe
travel writer
memoirist
photographer
Beziehungen
Brassey, Lord (husband)
Brassey, T. A. (son)
Organisationen
St. John Ambulance
Royal Photographic Society
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Annie Brassey, later Lady Brassey, was born Anna Allnutt in London, England, the daughter of a wealthy wine merchant. As a young woman, she suffered serious health problems and received severe burns when she stood too close to a fireplace and her skirt caught fire.

In 1860, she married Thomas Brassey (knighted in 1881 and later Earl Brassey), a Member of Parliament and heir to a railway fortune, with whom she had five children. The family traveled together frequently aboard a luxury steam yacht called Sunbeam after their daughter Constance Alberta who died of scarlet fever at age four. Annie wrote
A Voyage in the Sunbeam (1878), describing their journey around the world in 1876–1877 with a complement of 43, including family, friends, and crew. The work showed her keen interest in botany and nature, developed in childhood. Her other travel journals included Sunshine and Storm in the East (1880), In the Trades, the Tropics, and the Roaring Forties (1885), and The Last Voyage (1889), published posthumously. She was also an accomplished photographer, and exhibited some of her work in Royal Photographic Society exhibitions in 1873 and 1886. She died at age 47, on a voyage to Mauritius, and was buried at sea.

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Republication of her earlier work, 1887, Around the world in the yacht 'Sunbeam'.
 
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