Annie Barnett (; 12 December 1861 â 1941), also known as Mrs P. A. Barnett, was an English writer and editor who compiled anthologies of prose and verse, including selections for children. She co-authored the epistolary novel Drifting Thistledown (1910). Barnett supported women's suffrage and was the mother of birth control campaigner and writer Charis Frankenburg.
Barnett was born Annie Beeching in Paddington, Middlesex, on 12 December 1861 to James Plummer George Beeching and Harriet Beeching ().
Her father worked as a bookseller and her brother was author Henry Beeching, Dean of Norwich. She was educated at North London Collegiate school and later studied at London University.
Barnett edited a number of books of prose and verse, including works for children. She also co-authored an epistolary novel, Drifting Thistledown. An article about the book was published in The New York Times.
Barnett married Percy Arthur Barnett (1858âÂÂ1941), an educationalist and school inspector, at Hampstead in 1888. They had a son, Denis, who died in the First World War, and a daughter, Charis. Barnett, who was a supporter of women's suffrage took her daughter to hear suffragette speakers in Hyde Park on multiple occasions. Charis later became a writer and an activist for birth control.
Barnett died in Paddington, London, in the second quarter of 1941, aged 79.