Born: 4 June 1857, Australia
Died: 28 May 1929
Country most active: Australia
Also known as: Lady Headley, Barbara Janet Ainsleigh Lawrence
The following is excerpted from The Dictionary of Australian Biography by Percival Searle, published in 1949 by Angus and Robertson and republished by Project Gutenberg.
BAYNTON, BARBARA JANET AINSLEIGH (1862-1929), author, daughter of Robert Laurence Kilpatrick, was born at Scone, Hunter River district, New South Wales, in 1862. In 1880 she married Hay Frater and in 1890 Dr Thomas Baynton. A few years later she began contributing short stories to the Bulletin and six of these were published in 1902 under the title of Bush Studies. In 1907 appeared Human Toll, a novel, and in 1917 Cobbers, a reprint of Bush Studies, with two additional stories. During the 1914-18 war Mrs Baynton was living in England and in 1921 she married her third husband Baron Headley. She died at Melbourne on 28 May 1929. She was survived by Lord Headley, and two sons and a daughter by the first marriage.
Barbara Baynton’s reputation rests on half a dozen short stories, written with much ability and power, and uncompromising in their stark realism.
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