Annabella Alexandrina Campbell Boswell

Annabella Alexandrina Campbell Boswell born Annabella Alexandrina Campbell Innes (16 September 1826 – 25 October 1914) was an Australian diarist and gentlewoman.

Life Boswell was born in the valley of the Macquarie River known as the Bathurst plains in 1826. When she was about eight, she and her family moved to a cattle station they owned called Glen Alice, at Capertee. She was able to be educated at Bridge Street in Sydney at Miss Evans's boarding school for a year. Her mother was Georgianna Lorn Moorshead (born Campbell) and her father was George Innes and they held land. After she left the boarding school, her parents employed governesses. Her writings survive from when she was sixteen.

In 1839, her father died after he had moved them to Port Macquarie in an unsuccessful attempt to regain his health. Her mother sold the property at Capertee, and by 1843, they were back at Port Macquarie They lived at Lake Innes House. She was interested in novels and history, and she was able to borrow books from the distant Sydney Library. She began to write.

Death and legacy Boswell died in 1914 at Garrallan. Her journals have been reprinted. Her papers and drawings are of considerable value, and they are recognised by UNESCO because of the insight they give to Australian history. Her papers that were with the Boswell family in Scotland were purchased and brought to Australia.