Anna Brassey

The Lady Brassey
Anna Brassey[1]
Born
Anna Allnutt

7 October 1839
London, England
Died14 September 1887(1887-09-14) (aged 47)
En route to Mauritius
Resting placeBuried at sea
NationalityBritish
Other namesAnnie Allnutt
Known forTravel writing
TitleBaroness Brassey
Spouse
(m. 1860)
Children
Parent(s)Mr and Mrs John Allnutt

Anna Brassey, Baroness Brassey (née Allnutt; 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 (1878) describes a voyage around the world.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference npg was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Marshall, Edward Henry (1901). "Brassey, Anna" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  3. ^ Brassey, Annie. "A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam': Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months (1879)". Retrieved 4 February 2013.