Ada Barnett Explained

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Ada Barnett (1864 – 11 April 1953) was a British novelist who published under her own name and the pseudonym G. Cardella.

Ada Barnett was born on 1864 in Tooting, one of nine children of Edward Barnett, a gun manufacturer, and Jaquetta Wright Sanders. She spent her early life at the family home of Kenton Court in Sunbury-on-Thames. She never married though she always wore a wedding ring to commemorate her deceased fiancée.^[1]

She published four novels in the 1890s. under the name of G. Cardella. In the 1920s, she published three more novels under her own name. The Joyous Adventurer is a fantasy novel about Copper Top, a being who explores humanity as a human and then returns to his higher plane of existence.^[2]

She was an anti-vivisectionist campaigner. She was named Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1919 for her work as commandant of the Kingswood Auxiliary Hospital and Rust Hall Auxiliary Hospital.^[3]

Ada Barnett died on 11 April 1953 in Sunbury-on-Thames.^[4]

Bibliography

• A King's Daughter.  3 vol.  London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1892.
• The Perfect Way of Honour.  3 vol.  London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1894.
• For the Life of Others: A Novel.  1 vol.  London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1897.
• The Adventures of Tod with and without Betty.  1 vol.  London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1900.
• The Man on the Other Side.  London: Allen and Unwin, 1921.^{[5] [6]}
• The Joyous Adventurer. London: Allen and Unwin, 1923.
• Mary's Son. London: Allen and Unwin, 1927.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Author: Ada Barnett . 2024-07-13 . victorianresearch.org.
2. Book: Bleiler, Everett Franklin . The guide to supernatural fiction . 1983 . Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press . Internet Archive.
3. Book: The London Gazette . 1919 . Tho. Newcomb over against Baynards Castle in Thamse-street . en.
4. Sevenoaks Chronicle and Kentish Advertiser - Friday 17 April 1953, page 12
5. Book: Schlobin, Roger C. . Urania's daughters : a checklist of women science fiction writers, 1692-1982 . 1984 . San Bernardino, Calif. : Borgo Press . Internet Archive.
6. Book: Who was who in literature, 1906-1934 . 1979 . Detroit : Gale Research Company . Internet Archive . 978-0-8103-0402-4.