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.
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(Atkinson house and landscape at Oldbury)

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References [<ExternalResource: 'NSW Death Records : 4184/1867'.>, <ExternalResource: Muir, Marcie (1980), 'Charlotte Barton: Australia's First Children's Author', Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Chisholm, A., 'Caroline Louisa Atkinson', Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 3.>, <ExternalResource: Clarke, P. (1990), 'Pioneer Writer: The Life of Louisa Atkinson: Novelist, Journalist, Naturalist', Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Toy, A, et al (1988), 'Hearth and Home', Historic Houses Trust catalogue, Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: (1861), Sydney Morning Herald, 12-20.>] [<ExternalResource: 'NSW Death Records : 4184/1867'.>]