About Ada Barnett
Lived 1864 – 1953 (aged 88–89). Ada Barnett was a British writer and novelist.
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 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.
She published four novels in the 1890s. under the name of G. Cardella. She was an anti-vivisectionist campaigner.
Ada Barnett died on 11 April 1953 in Sunbury-on-Thames.
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British novelist
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Ada Barnett was born in 1864 in Tooting.
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