Dawbin, Annie Maria Baxter (1816 - 1905)

The journal of Annie Dawbin opens in September 1834 when its author, then a 17-year-old bride, is voyaging to Australia with her new husband, Lieutenant Andrew Baxter. Over the course of her life - during which she had two marriages; worked on the land; voyaged to and from Australia several times; and raised her brother's children after the death of his wife - Dawbin filled no less than 32 journals. Her complete diaries were edited by Lucy Frost and published in 1997.

• Baxter, Annie (former married name)
• Hadden, Annie (maiden name)

Books

• Dawbin, Annie Baxter, Memories of the Past by a Lady in Australia, W.H. Williams, Melbourne, 1873, 112 pp. [ Details... ]
• Dawbin, Annie Baxter, Memories of Tasmania and of the Macleay River and New England districts of New South Wales and of Port Fairy in the western district of Port Phillip, 1834-1848, Sullivan's Cove, Adelaide, 1980, 88 pp. [ Details... ]
• Dawbin, Annie Baxter, The Journal of Annie Baxter Dawbin: July 1858 - May 1868, Frost, Lucy, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, QLD, 1997, 668 pp. [ Details... ]
• Frost, Lucy, No Place for a Nervous Lady, McPhee Gribble/Penguin, Melbourne, 1984, 284 pp. [ Details... ]
• Frost, Lucy, A Face in the Glass: The Journal and Life of Annie Baxter Dawbin, William Heinemann, Port Melbourne, 1992, 340 pp. [ Details... ]

See also

• Australian Dictionary of Biography Online, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au. [ Details... ]
• Radi, Heather (ed.), 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Women's Redress Press, Sydney, 1988, 258 pp. (Also available at http://www.200australianwomen.com/) [ Details... ]