Anna Brassey, Baroness Brassey

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

Life

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

The writer became famous due to their travel, particularly their eleven-month trip around the world in the years 1876/77 to South America, Japan, China, Singapore and Sri Lanka, which they shared with her husband, took her children and other guests on the yacht Sunbeam and their literary treatment, 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 with historical and ethnographic interest, which were first issued in their home in London in 1919 in the Hastings Museum.

During her last trip, on the way from Australia to India to Mauritius, Brassey died of malaria; she was buried at sea.

Anne Brassey was since October 9, 1860 married to the later members of parliament Sir Thomas Brassey, Jr., the son of the businessman Thomas Brassey. Together with her husband she had five children.

Work

Her work A Voyage in the Sunbeam, our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months (1878 ) has been repeatedly reprinted 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)