Ada Barnett
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(aged 88–89)Ada Barnett | |
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| Born | 1864 |
| Died | 11 April 1953 (aged 88–89) |
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Ada Barnett MBE (1864 – 11 April 1953) was a British novelist who published under her own name and the pseudonym G. Cardella.
Ada Barnett was born in 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.[1] In the 1920s, she published three more novels under her own name.[2] 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.[3]
She was an anti-vivisectionist campaigner.[1] 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.[4]
Ada Barnett died on 11 April 1953 in Sunbury-on-Thames.[5]
