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A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

Author: Joan Barrett

Author: Joan Barrett (1868–1962)

Alternate Name(s): (pseudonym); Rose Aburrow (maiden name); Davis (married name)

Biography: Rose Aburrow was born in 1868 in Surrey. In 1896, she married novelist Frank Barrett (actual name Frank Davis). The couple had two children. She also contributed stories to magazines, such as her Monte Carlo Stories (1896), under the pseudonym "Joan Barrett." Her husband died in 1926 and she spent the next thirty-six years as a widow dying on 17 October 1962 in Clevedon, Somerset.

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References: Probate; Sutherland (Frank Barrett)

Fiction Titles:

  1. Monte Carlo Stories.  1 vol.  London: Chatto and Windus, 1896.