Anne Wilson

Anne Wilson, Lady Wilson (née Adams) (11 June 1848 – 11 February 1930) was an Australian poet and novelist. Most of her work was published as Mrs James Glenny Wilson or the pseudonym Austral. Her mother, Jane Anderson, was Scottish, and her father, the farmer Robert Adams, was Irish. She was known as Annie, and she received her education at Geelong High School and at a private institution in St Kilda, Victoria. After her schooling, she travelled through Europe with her mother. On 21 January 1874, she married James Wilson at St Enochs station near Skipton, Victoria. Her husband had bought of land in the Rangitikei District of New Zealand in 1873, and by the end of 1874, the Wilsons were living there.