Barbara Janet Ainsleigh Baynton, Lady Headley 1857 1929 was an Australian writer, made famous for Bush Studies 1902 which was written in retaliation to Henry Lawson s works In 1880, she married Alexander Frater, the son of her employers However, he ran off with a servant, Sarah Glover, in 1887, and Barbara moved to Sydney and commenced divorce proceedings In 1890 sBarbara Janet Ainsleigh Baynton, Lady Headley 1857 1929 was an Australian writer, made famous for Bush Studies 1902 which was written in retaliation to Henry Lawson s works In 1880, she married Alexander Frater, the son of her employers However, he ran off with a servant, Sarah Glover, in 1887, and Barbara moved to Sydney and commenced divorce proceedings In 1890 she married Dr Thomas Baynton, a retired surgeon aged 70 years who had literary friends A few years later she began contributing short stories to the Bulletin and six of these were published in 1902 in London under the title of Bush Studies She was unable to find a publisher for them in Sydney Her husband died in 1904 and left his entire estate to her She invested in the stock market, bought and sold antiques, and collected black opals from Lightning Ridge In 1907, her only novel, Human Toll, was published, and in 1917 Cobbers, a reprint of Bush Studies with two additional stories, appeared During World War I she lived in England and in 1921 she married her third husband Baron Headley.