Charlotte Barton b. 1797

Also known as Charlotte Waring, Charlotte Atkinson
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Charlotte Barton came to Australia upon her father's death to work as a governess. Two of her daughters went on to become well-known artists but Barton is best known as the author of 'A Mother's Offering to her Children', the first children's book to be written and published in Australia.

Citations

  • 'NSW Death Records : 4184/1867’.

  • Muir, Marcie (1980), 'Charlotte Barton: Australia’s First Children’s Author’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Chisholm, A., 'Caroline Louisa Atkinson’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 3.

  • Clarke, P. (1990), 'Pioneer Writer: The Life of Louisa Atkinson: Novelist, Journalist, Naturalist’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Toy, A, et al (1988), 'Hearth and Home’, Historic Houses Trust catalogue, Sydney, NSW.

  • (1861), Sydney Morning Herald, 12-20.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870