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'''Anna''' "'''Annie'''" '''Brassey''' (''[[née]]'' '''Allnutt'''), '''Baroness Brassey''' (7 October 1839 – 14 September 1887)<ref name="DNB">''Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford: Oxford University, 2004)</ref> was an [[England|English]] traveller and writer. Her bestselling book ''A Voyage in the Sunbeam, our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months'' was published in 1878.<ref>{{cite web|last=Brassey|first=Annie|title=A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam': Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months (1879)|url=http://archive.org/stream/avoyageinsunbea00peargoog#page/n10/mode/2up|accessdate=4 February2013}}</ref>
'''Anna''' "'''Annie'''" '''Brassey''' (''[[née]]'' '''Allnutt'''), '''Baroness Brassey''' (7 October 1839 – 14 September 1887)<ref name="DNB">''Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford: Oxford University, 2004)</ref> was an [[England|English]] traveller and writer. Her bestselling book ''A Voyage in the Sunbeam, our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months'' was published in 1878.<ref>{{cite web|last=Brassey|first=Annie|title=A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam': Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months (1879)|url=http://archive.org/stream/avoyageinsunbea00peargoog#page/n10/mode/2up|accessdate=4 February2013}}</ref>


The daughter of John Allnutt, she married the English [[Member of Parliament]] [[Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey|Sir Thomas Brassey]] (later Earl Brassey), with whom she lived near his [[Hastings]] [[Hastings (UK Parliament constituency)|constituency]]. The couple had five children together before they travelled aboard their luxury yacht ''Sunbeam''. The number of people on board was 43.<ref>[http://www.fullbooks.com/Lives-of-Girls-Who-Became-Famous4.html Lives of Girls who became famous], Sarah Knowles Bolton, accessed April 2009</ref> ''A Voyage in the Sunbeam'', describing their journey around the world in 1876-7, ran through many English editions and was translated into at least five other languages. Her accounts of later voyages include ''Sunshine and Storm in the East'' (1880);<ref>{{cite web|last=Brassey|first=Annie|title=Sunshine and Storm in the East, Or, Cruises to Cyprus and Constantinople (1880)|url=http://archive.org/stream/sunshineandstor04brasgoog#page/n9/mode/2up|accessdate=4 February 2013}}</ref> ''In the Trades, the Tropics, and the Roaring Forties'' (1885); and ''The Last Voyage'' (1889, published posthumously).
The daughter of John Allnutt, she married the English [[Member of Parliament]] [[Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey|Sir Thomas Brassey]] (later Earl Brassey), with whom she lived near his [[Hastings]] [[Hastings (UK Parliament constituency)|constituency]]. The couple had five children together before they travelled aboard their luxury yacht ''Sunbeam''. The yacht was said to have been named after their daughter - Constance Alberta - who was nick-named Sunbeam; she died of scarlet fever aged four, on 24 January 1873. The golden figure head of the yacht depicting her is at the Royal Museum Greenwich, UK.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sunbeam [Constance Alberta Brassey]|url=http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/18812.html|accessdate=22 July 2013}}</ref> (The number of people on board was 43.<ref>[http://www.fullbooks.com/Lives-of-Girls-Who-Became-Famous4.html Lives of Girls who became famous], Sarah Knowles Bolton, accessed April 2009</ref> ''A Voyage in the Sunbeam'', describing their journey around the world in 1876-7, ran through many English editions and was translated into at least five other languages. Her accounts of later voyages include ''Sunshine and Storm in the East'' (1880);<ref>{{cite web|last=Brassey|first=Annie|title=Sunshine and Storm in the East, Or, Cruises to Cyprus and Constantinople (1880)|url=http://archive.org/stream/sunshineandstor04brasgoog#page/n9/mode/2up|accessdate=4 February 2013}}</ref> ''In the Trades, the Tropics, and the Roaring Forties'' (1885); and ''The Last Voyage'' (1889, published posthumously).


In July 1881 King [[Kalākaua]] of Hawaii, who had been greatly pleased with her description of his kingdom, was entertained at Normanhurst Castle, and invested Lady Brassey with the [[Royal Order of Kapiolani]].<ref>[http://www.web-books.com/Classics/ON/B0/B891/GirlsFamousC16.html Girls Famous]</ref>
In July 1881 King [[Kalākaua]] of Hawaii, who had been greatly pleased with her description of his kingdom, was entertained at Normanhurst Castle, and invested Lady Brassey with the [[Royal Order of Kapiolani]].<ref>[http://www.web-books.com/Classics/ON/B0/B891/GirlsFamousC16.html Girls Famous]</ref>

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Anna Brassey
Anna Brassey[1]
Born
Anna Allnutt

7 October 1839
London
Died14 September 1887(1887-09-14) (aged 47)
NationalityBritish
Known forTravel writing
TitleBaroness Brassey
SpouseThomas Brassey
Childrenfive
ParentJohn Allnutt

Anna "Annie" Brassey (née Allnutt), Baroness Brassey (7 October 1839 – 14 September 1887)[2] was an English traveller and writer. Her bestselling book A Voyage in the Sunbeam, our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months was published in 1878.[3]

The daughter of John Allnutt, she married the English Member of Parliament Sir Thomas Brassey (later Earl Brassey), with whom she lived near his Hastings constituency. The couple had five children together before they travelled aboard their luxury yacht Sunbeam. The yacht was said to have been named after their daughter - Constance Alberta - who was nick-named Sunbeam; she died of scarlet fever aged four, on 24 January 1873. The golden figure head of the yacht depicting her is at the Royal Museum Greenwich, UK.[4] (The number of people on board was 43.[5] A Voyage in the Sunbeam, describing their journey around the world in 1876-7, ran through many English editions and was translated into at least five other languages. Her accounts of later voyages include Sunshine and Storm in the East (1880);[6] In the Trades, the Tropics, and the Roaring Forties (1885); and The Last Voyage (1889, published posthumously).

In July 1881 King Kalākaua of Hawaii, who had been greatly pleased with her description of his kingdom, was entertained at Normanhurst Castle, and invested Lady Brassey with the Royal Order of Kapiolani.[7]

At home in England, she performed charitable work, largely for the St. John Ambulance Association. Her collection of ethnographic and natural history material were shown in a museum at her husband's London house until they were moved to Hastings Museum in 1919.[8] There are also several photograph albums and other ephemera held at Hasting Library.

Lady Brassey's last voyage on the Sunbeam was to India and Australia, undertaken in November 1886 to improve her health. On the way to Mauritius, she died of malaria on 14 September 1887, and was buried at sea.[1][9][10]

  • Sunbeam under full sail
    Sunbeam under full sail
  • Lord Brassey and his wife entertaining King Kalākaua of Hawaii, 1881
    Lord Brassey and his wife entertaining King Kalākaua of Hawaii, 1881
  • From A Voyage in the Sunbeam[11]
    From A Voyage in the Sunbeam[11]

References

  1. ^ a b 'Lady Anna Brassey', National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 22 February 2008.
  2. ^ Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University, 2004)
  3. ^ Brassey, Annie. "A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam': Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months (1879)". Retrieved 4 February2013. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  4. ^ "Sunbeam [Constance Alberta Brassey]". Retrieved 22 July 2013.
  5. ^ Lives of Girls who became famous, Sarah Knowles Bolton, accessed April 2009
  6. ^ Brassey, Annie. "Sunshine and Storm in the East, Or, Cruises to Cyprus and Constantinople (1880)". Retrieved 4 February 2013.
  7. ^ Girls Famous
  8. ^ 'The Brassey Collection', Hastings Museum, accessed June 2009.
  9. ^ Lives of Girls who became famous, Sarah Knowles Bolton, accessed June 2009.
  10. ^ The Last Voyage (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889).
  11. ^ Illustrations from A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam', by Annie Allnut Brassey

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