Kathleen Frances Barker

Barker's grandfather, Benjamin Barker,{{Refn|Benjamin Barker (Clayton 6 August 1831 – Horton, Bradford April 1896). GRO index: Deaths Jun 1896 Barker Benjamin 64 Bradford, Y 9b 83. |group=nb}} was a weaving overlooker or supervisor.{{cite web |title=Barker, Wright |url=https://www.notjusthockney.info/barker-wright/ |website=www.notjusthockney.info |publisher=Not Just Hockney |access-date=29 June 2025}} He was illiterate at the time of his first marriage, although his wife was not. Barker's grandmother was Lydia Barker née Robinson,{{Refn|Lydia Barker née Robinson (Great Horton 1834 – West Yorkshire March 1885). GRO index: Marriages Dec 1852 Robinson Lydia and Barker Benjamin. Bradford 9b 49. Deaths Mar 1885 Barker Lydia 51 Bradford, Y. 9b 103. |group=nb}}{{cite web |title=1871 England Census. 4 Bartle Square, Horton, Bradford, West Yorkshire. RG10/4471. Page 22. Schedule 136. |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/7619/images/WRYRG10_4470_4474-0295?pId=26010592 |website=ancestry.co.uk|via=Ancestry|url-access=subscription |publisher=H.M. Government |access-date=1 July 2025 |date=1871 |quote=Benjamin Barker, age 39, weaving overlooker, born Clayton, Yorkshire. Wife Lydia Barker age 37, worsted weaver, born Horton, Yorkshire. Son Wright Barker age 7, scholar, born Horton, Yorkshire.}} the daughter of Jonas Robinson, a shoemaker.{{cite book |title=West Yorkshire Church of England Marriages and Banns 1813-1935. |date=24 October 1852 |publisher=Church of England |location=Parish Church, Bradford (Bradford Cathedral), West Yorkshire |page=168 |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/2253/images/32355_249712-00169?pId=15973489 |access-date=1 July 2025|via=Ancestry|url-access=subscription |quote=24 October 1852. Benjamin Barker, 21, weaver of Clayton, son of weaver Thomas Barker. - and Lydia Robinson, 19, weaver from Horton, daughter of shoemaker Jonas Robinson. Lydia signed her name, but Benjamin was illiterate and signed with a cross.}} Lydia Robinson was a worsted weaver. Barker's father was the artist Wright Barker,{{Refn|John Wright Barker (Great Horton, Bradford 16 July 1863 – Harrogate 10 March 1941). GRO index: Births Sep 1863 Barker Wright Bradford Yk 9b 125. Deaths Mar 1941 Barker Wright 77 Knaresbro' 9a 414. |group=nb}}{{cite book |last1=Waters |first1=Grant M. |title=Dictionary of British Artists, working 1900-1950 |date=1975 |publisher=Eastbourne Fine Art |location=Eastbourne, UK |page=21 |edition=1}} who was born in Great Horton, Bradford.{{cite web |title=1881 England Census. 2 Falcon Street, Horton, Bradford. RG11/4456. Page 13/69. Schedule 68. |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/7572/records/24473235?tid=&pid=&queryId=ec1077b4-f250-4e4d-bfa8-7230612e55d5&_phsrc=HFg487&_phstart=successSource |website=ancestry.co.uk|via=Ancestry|url-access=subscription |publisher=H.M. Government |access-date=1 July 2025 |date=1881 |quote=2 Falcon Street. Benjamin Barker, 49, worsted power loom overlooker, born Clayton, Bradford. Wife Lydia, 47, born Horton. Son Wright Barker 17 engaged in weft room (worsted). Born Horton.}}{{cite web |last1=Jennings |first1=Paul |title=The Barkers |url=https://www.harrogatecivicsociety.org/historypeopleindex/people01 |website=harrogatecivicsociety.org |publisher=Harrogate Civic Society |access-date=21 June 2025 |date=April 2022}} Wright Barker left Bradford and worked as an artist in Edwinstowe and Mansfield, Nottinghamshire,{{cite web |title=1891 England Census. Sherwood Villa, Edwinstowe, Southwell, Nottinghamshire. RG12/2709. Page 6. Schedule 45. |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/6598/records/13807346?tid=&pid=&queryId=09abb19f-3789-4216-973a-2e25742c85cd&_phsrc=HFg479&_phstart=successSource |website=ancestry.co.uk|via=Ancestry|url-access=subscription |publisher=H.M. Government |access-date=1 July 2025 |date=1891 |quote=Sherwood Villa, Edwinstowe. Wright Barker, lodger, age 27, artist, born Bradford, Yorkshire.}} then moved to Hampstead. Barker's mother was Ellen Mary Alcock,{{Refn|Ellen Mary Barker née Alcock (East Retford 13 April 1868 – Harrogate 20 January 1947). GRO index: Births Jun 1868 Alcock Ellen Mary East Retford 7b 19. Marriages Sep 1892 Barker Wright and Alcock Ellen Mary. Southwell 7b 571. Deaths Mar 1947 Barker Ellen M. 78 Claro 2c 130. |group=nb}} the daughter of a Tuxford farmer. In 1914 the family moved to Thorn Lea, 16 Duchy Road, Harrogate, which was to be Barker's home for the rest of her life.

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Barker was born at The Beeches, Willow Road, Ollerton, Nottinghamshire,{{Refn|Kathleen Frances Wright Barker (Ollerton 2 June 1901 – Harrogate 1 April 1963). GRO index: Births Mar 1901 Barker Kathleen Frances W. Southwell 7b 458. Deaths Jun 1963 Barker Kathleen F.W. 62 Claro 2C 74. Barker was buried in Stonefall Cemetery, Harrogate, with her sister Gladys, in section 20E, grave 7170. |group=nb}}{{cite book |title=1939 England and Wales Register. Duchy Road, Harrogate. Schedule 161/3. District 489/2.|via=Ancestry|url-access=subscription |date=1939 |publisher=H.M. Government |location=Harrogate |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/61596/images/tna_r39_3650_3650d_022?pId=22437346 |access-date=30 June 2025}} and was the third child of the four offspring of Wight Barker and his wife Ellen Mary. She was baptised at St Giles' Church, Ollerton on 14 April 1901.{{cite book |title=Nottinghamshire Church of England baptisms 1813-1922.|via=Ancestry|url-access=subscription |date=1901 |publisher=Church of England |location=Ollerton, Nottinghamshire |page=131 |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/61839/images/61838_b1049359-00136?pId=1093722 |access-date=30 June 2025}} Her siblings were: Gladys Wright Barker,{{Refn|Gladys Wright Barker (Ollerton 15 April 1894 – 2 July 1960). GRO index: Births Jun 1894 Barker Gladys Wright Southwell 7b 423. Deaths Sep 1960 Barker Gladys W. 66 Claro 2c 70. |group=nb}}{{cite web |title=1901 England Census. Willow Road, Ollerton, Nottinghamshire. Page 20. Schedule 145. RG13/3194.|via=Ancestry|url-access=subscription |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/7814/images/NTTRG13_3194_3197-0028?pId=18814831 |website=ancestry.co.uk |publisher=H.M. Government |access-date=30 June 2025 |date=1901}} Doris Wright Barker, PhD,{{Refn|Doris Wright Barker (Ollerton 12 December 1898 – Selby 1987). GRO index: Births Mar 1898 Barker Doris Wright Southwell 7b 453. Marriages Jun 1928 Barker Doris W. and Murphy William. Knaresbro' 9a 235 Deaths 1987 Murphy Doris Wright 12 December 1898 Selby 2 2709. |group=nb}}{{cite news |title=Marriages |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19280615/235/0010 |access-date=1 July 2025 |work=Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |date=15 June 1928 |quote=June 14 1928 at St Wilfrid's Harrogate. William Murphy to Doris Wright-Barker, the daughter of Mr and Mrs Wright-Barker, of Thornlea, Duchy Road, Harrogate}} who was a teacher and writer,{{cite news |last1=Barker |first1=Doris Wright |title=Out with the Beables: Thrilling Days in the Open |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000748/19290221/150/0006 |access-date=1 July 2025 |work=Leeds Mercury |date=21 February 1929 |page=6 cols 3,4|via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription}}{{cite news |last1=Barker |first1=Doris Wright |title=Little terrors at school: how they try to trap the teachers |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000748/19281227/101/0004 |access-date=1 July 2025 |work=Leeds Mercury |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |date=27 December 1928 |page=4 cols 3,4 |quote=D. Wright Barker PhD}} and Reginald Wright Barker.{{Refn|Reginald Wright Barker (born Ollerton 1907).Births Dec 1907 Barker Reginald Wright Southwell 7b 490. |group=nb}} The 1911 Census shows that in Ollerton she had a governess.{{cite web |title=1911 England Census. The Beeches, Willow Road, Ollerton. Schedule 152 |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/2352/images/rg14_20698_0313_03?pId=5603937|via=Ancestry|url-access=subscription |website=ancestry.co.uk |publisher=H.M. Government |access-date=30 June 2025 |date=1911}}

Barker was a sportswoman,{{cite web |title=Barker, K.F. |url=https://janebadgerbooks.co.uk/british-authors/barker-k-f/ |website=janebadgerbooks.co.uk |publisher=Jane Badger Books |access-date=30 June 2025}} and in her youth her free time was occupied with, "riding, beagling and otter hunting",{{Refn|Note: Hunting otters and foxes is now ilegal in the United Kingdom. Otters are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017|group=nb}} along with her sister Doris. She did not marry, and died on 1 April 1963 at Thorn Lea, 16 Duchy Road, where she had lived for most of her life.{{cite web |last1=Beetles |first1=Chris |title=Kathleen Frances Barker (1901-1963) |url=https://chrisbeetles.com/artist/830/kathleen-frances-barker |website=chrisbeetles.com |publisher=Chris Beetles Gallery |access-date=30 June 2025 |date=2025}} Her neighbour, who knew her and received gifts of books from her during his childhood, described her as, "a daunting and rather reclusive old lady ... gruff but kind". Historian Paul Jennings said that she became so isolated that when she died, "milk had not been collected and the door had to be broken down". Although she wrote many children's books, and her illustrations were popular, in common with other forgotten women artists and writers there were no newspaper obituaries of her. Her books continued to be advertised beyond the end of her life, nevertheless.{{cite news |title=Country Life Books for Animal Lovers (advertisement) |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/9900007/19640213/181/0084 |access-date=5 July 2025 |work=Country Life magazine |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |date=13 February 1964 |page=84/360}} She was buried at Stonefall Cemetery not far from her parents and alongside her sister Gladys.{{cite web |title=Grave index 1300s–present: Kathleen Frances Wright Barker |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/60526/records/145725426?tid=40598215&pid=152567531833&ssrc=pt |website=ancestry.co.uk|url-access=subscription |via=Ancestry |access-date=30 June 2025}}

In her introduction to Just Dogs (1933), Barker speaks her mind about the cross-breed dogs that she has drawn, and about her own attitude to them. At age 32, she is not the retiring and poorly-educated spinster of Victorian popular imagination:

I must reluctantly confess ... that the majority of my dog friends portrayed here are, alas, only the ordinary children of ordinary parents; in fact some few among them fail to reach even this standard, but, being the care-free result of some light-hearted and fantastic mésalliance, remain Just Dogs ... It is astonishing the pains we take to defend the points of our dogs, and if, as is sometimes unfortunately the case, the said points are too glaringly non-existent, how easily and gracefully we fall back on some outstanding virtue in the dog's character, or some engaging little way that he has, and dangle this in front of our critics ... [and on imagining dog heaven:] And all the old hounds I think will be young again, rousing the echoes with their wild joyous crash of music as once again they're on the line, hunting the elusive otter to his holt in some dark and secret pool; spreading out over the heather in tireless pursuit of a royal stag, and fleeting over the grass on the scent of a game red fox, who, of course, heaven being heaven, would have no objection to being chased.

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Between 1933 and 1961 Barker worked as an illustrator, and author of children’s books. Her illustrations, such as Bulldog, the Gamest Fighter of all Time,{{Refn|Dog fighting has been illegal in the United Kingdom since 1911. However during Barker's era the bulldog also symbolised British jingoism and the soldiers of the First World War.. |group=nb}} were reproduced in the Yorkshire Evening Post and The Field Tailwagger. Most of her illustrations represent animals, especially horses and dogs. Chris Beetles of Chris Beetles Gallery says: "Employing pen, ink and pencil, she depicted her subjects with care and affection, often concentrating on their appearance and behaviour to the exclusion of extraneous setting or action". In 1955, Stratton was producing powder compacts decorated with reduced-size copies of Barker's dog studies, and describing her as "K.F. Barker, the famous canine artist".{{cite news |title=New creations by Stratton (advertisement) |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0001853/19550601/005/0004?browse=true&fullscreen=true |access-date=6 July 2025|via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |work=The Tatler |date=1 June 1955 |page=4/490}}

It was not possible for Barker to find commissions during the Second World War, but she started publishing again in the 1950s. As of 2024, her original drawings continued to be saleable.{{cite web |title=Kathleen Frances Barker Sold at Auction Prices |url=https://www.invaluable.com/artist/barker-kathleen-frances-9aosacfnva/sold-at-auction-prices/ |website=invaluable.com |publisher=Invaluable |access-date=1 July 2025 |date=2024}}{{cite web |title=K. F. Barker "The Terrier Man" original etching |url=https://www.bada.org/object/k-f-barker-terrier-man-original-etching |website=bada.org |publisher=The British Antique Dealers' Association |access-date=1 July 2025}}{{cite web |title=Kathleen Frances Barker |url=https://www.artnet.com/artists/kathleen-frances-barker/ |website=artnet.com |publisher=Artnet |access-date=1 July 2025 |date=2024}}

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This early book, published at a price of 10s 6d ({{Inflation|UK|0.525|1933|fmt=eq|r=2|cursign=£}}),{{Inflation-fn|UK|df=y}} drew attention. A Country Life advertisement of 1935 quotes a Glasgow Herald review: "K.F. Barker draws a dog almost as well as Mr Dowd does a child ...".{{cite news |title=New Country Life Books (advertisement) |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000577/19331212/160/0004 |access-date=6 July 2025|via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |work=Aberdeen Press and Journal |date=12 December 1933 |page=4 col.2}}

In the Western Mail', the Welsh reviewer Frederick John Mathias,{{Refn|Frederick John Mathias (Haverfordwest 1879 – Cardiff 4 November 1934). GRO index: Births Sep 1879 Mathias Frederick John Haverfordwest 11a 883. Deaths Dec 1934 Mathias Frederick J. 55 Cardiff 11a 341. |group=nb}}{{cite news |title=Mr Frederick Mathias dead |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0000104/19341105/248/0009?browse=true |access-date=6 July 2025|via=British Newspaper Arthive|url-access=subscription |work=Western Mail |date=5 November 1934 |page=9 col.3}} who could at other times be "bruising" and "scarifying" according to Elisabeth Inglis-Jones,{{cite web |title=The fury of one Welsh reviewer |url=http://www.letterfromaberystwyth.co.uk/the-fury-of-one-welsh-reviewer/ |website=letterfromaberystwyth.co.uk |publisher=letterfromaberystwyth.co.uk |access-date=5 July 2025|date=5 July 2013}} discusses Just Dogs in 1933:

The artist possesses a genius for discovering the personalities of dogs and catching them in every place of crime, mischief and saintly endeavour. The result is a picture gallery mostly of rogues, but such lovable, cheerful, waggish rogues, for what the photograph hides the sketch can reveal. But why Just Dogs? Simply because any dog has a place in this popular gallery, no matter whether his pedigree is painful or his ancestors unknown ... One glance at this book will reveal its merits ... here you see the poses magnified and beautified by perfect draughtsmanship ... Every dog in every picture tells in its own way a delightful story.{{cite news |title=Lovable rogues |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000104/19331123/299/0011 |access-date=5 July 2025 |work=Western Mail |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |date=23 November 1933 |page=11 col.5}}

In 1933, Time and Tide magazine, assuming incorrectly that K.F. Barker is a man, reviews Just Dogs thus:

Mr Barker's clever pencil gives us to perfection the scrambling rush of the terrier, the bounding onslaught of the Aberdeen, the wolf-lke padding of the Alsatian, the spurning pride of the Pekingese. His word-sketches are simple and pleasant and full of kindness and good sense aimed at the selfishness of people who keep dogs under-exercised and over-fed, in city houses and flats. I think his plea for not exercising "Pekes" is, however, quite wrong ...{{cite news |title=Dogs for Christmas: Just Dogs, K.F. Barker |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0006084/19331216/053/0025?browse=true&fullscreen=true |access-date=3 July 2025 |work=Time & Tide |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |date=16 December 1933 |page=25/1551 col.1}}

Time and Tide was not the only publication to carry the assumption that K.F. Barker indicated a man. John O'London's Weekly has this undated review: "Mr K.F. Barker has an uncanny skill in drawing dogs. He can put a dog's whole character into the expression in its eye". Moreover, the dust cover of the 1937 reprint of Just Dogs carries that quotation without demur.{{cite book |last1=Barker |first1=Kathleen Frances |title=Just Dogs : sketches in pen and pencil |date=1933 |publisher=Country Life Ltd. ; Charles Scribner's Sons |location=London, New York |url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Just-dogs-sketches-pencil-Barker/dp/B00B1QJLYS/ref=sr_1_1 |access-date=30 June 2025 |quote=Reprinted seven times between 1933 and 1937, and again therafter.}} The same dust cover carries a second quotation – also undated – from the Times Literary Supplement, and part of the same quote was repeated in a 1935 Country Life advertisement:{{cite news |title=A selection of Country Life books for autumn (advertisement) |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005089/19350703/382/0009 |access-date=3 July 2025 |work=Bookseller |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |date=3 July 1935 |page=9/633 col.3}}:

These delicate pencil drawings, beautifully reproduced, will be a delight to every dog lover; the artist has caught his models on their lawful and unlawful occasions in characteristic attitudes, and has added some obita dicta on dogs and their ways to accompany them by way of text.

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The Scots Magazine reviews Barker's Traveller's Joy (1934): "Most knowledgeable ... an extremely good story of a foal ... The book is distinctive for its author's sound knowledge of horses, and for the definite probability of situations. The book is well illustrated in black and white by the author".{{cite news |title=Books and other things |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0000544/19341201/101/0075?browse=true&fullscreen=true |access-date=6 July 2025|via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |work=The Scots Magazine |volume=XXII |issue=3 |date=1 December 1934 |page=75/233}} Of Barker's Himself (1935), the Shrewsbury Chronicle says: The illustrations, from pencil and pen and ink sketches by the author, are charming".{{cite news |title=Canine friendship analysed |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000401/19351122/379/0014 |access-date=6 July 2025|via=Ancestry|url-access=subscription |work=Shrewsbury Chronicle |date=22 November 1935 |page=14 col.8}} Regarding Barker's 1937 book, Just Pups, the Yorkshire Evening Post comments:

It is in the drawings ... that Miss Barker excels. Many people have drawn dogs, but few can suggest temperament or mood. And if it can be doubted that in plain black and white it is possible to show a sardonic gleam in one pink-rimmed eye – of a Dalmatian in this case – the achievement is there, with many other expressions and types equally elusive.

Reviewing Barker's The Young Entry (1939), the Gloucestershire Echo says:

Few writers have treated the subject [of hunting] more instructively or entertainingly from the point of view of the beginner than has K. F. Barker ... To child riders to hounds, The Young Entry will be specially useful, for it tells them in clear and simple language everything that a beginner ought to know. The book is delightfully illustrated with drawings by the author.{{cite news |title=Hunting hints |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000320/19391013/036/0004 |access-date=6 July 2025|via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |work=Gloucestershire Echo |date=13 October 1939 |page=4 col.6}}

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Note: this may be an incomplete list.

• {{cite book |last1=Barker |first1=Kathleen Frances |title=Just Dogs : sketches in pen and pencil |date=1933 |publisher=Country Life Ltd. ; Charles Scribner's Sons |location=London, New York |url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Just-dogs-sketches-pencil-Barker/dp/B00B1QJLYS/ref=sr_1_1 |access-date=30 June 2025 |quote=Reprinted 1935, 1936}}
• {{cite book |last1=Barker |first1=Kathleen Frances |title=Bellman: the Story of a Beagle |date=1933 |publisher=A. & C. Black|location=London}}
• {{cite book |last1=Barker |first1=Kathleen Frances |title=Bellman Carries On |date=1933 |publisher=A & C Black |location=London}}
• {{cite book |last1=Buckingham |first1=M.E. |last2=Barker |first2=Kathleen Frances |title=Phari, the Adventures of a Tibetan Pony |date=1933 |publisher=Country Life |location=UK |edition=1 |url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/PHARI-ADVENTURES-TIBETAN-PONY-Buckingham/dp/B00089JK7W/ref=sr_1_10 |access-date=30 June 2025 |quote=Written by Buckingham, illustrated by Barker}}
• {{cite book |last1=Barker |first1=Kathleen Frances |title=Traveller's Joy: Gentleman & Puller |date=1934 |publisher=Country Life |location=London}}{{cite web |last1=Noble |first1=C. |title=K. F. Barker |url=http://kfbarker.ponymadbooklovers.co.uk/ |website=kfbarker.ponymadbooklovers.co.uk/ |publisher=Pony Mad Book Lovers |access-date=1 July 2025 |date=2023}}
• {{cite book |last1=Buckingham |first1=M.E. |last2=Barker |first2=Kathleen Frances |title=Zong: a Hill Pony |date=1934 |publisher=Country Life |location=London|quote=Written by Buckingham, illustrated by Barker}}
• {{cite book |last1=Enriquez |first1=C.M.D. |last2=Barker |first2=Kathleen Frances |title=Khyberie: the Story of a Pony on the Indian Frontier |date=1934 |publisher=A & C Black |location=London |quote=Written by Enriquez, illustrated by Barker}}
• {{cite book |last1=Grand |first1=Gordon |last2=Barker |first2=Kathleen Frances |title=The Silver Horn: Sporting Tales of John Weatherford |date=1934 |publisher=Country Life |location=London|quote=Written by Grand, illustrated by Barker}}
• {{cite book |last1=Barker |first1=Kathleen Frances |title=Himself |date=1935 |publisher=Country Life |location=London}}
• {{cite book |last1=Sturges |first1=Frediswid |last2=Barker |first2=Kathleen Frances |title=Dowsha: the Story of a Donkey |date=1935 |publisher=A & C Black |location=London |quote=Written by Sturges, illustrated by Barker}}
• {{cite book |last1=Barker |first1=Kathleen Frances |title=Champion: the story of a bull terrier who was "not quite" |date=5 February 1936 |publisher=Country Life Ltd |location=London |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005089/19360205/130/0018 |access-date=3 July 2025}}{{cite news |title=Country Life Spring Books (advertisement) |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005089/19360205/130/0018 |access-date=3 July 2025 |work=Bookseller |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |date=5 February 1936}}
• {{cite book |last1=Sewell |first1=Anna |last2=Barker |first2=Kathleen Frances |title=Black Beauty |date=1936 |url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Beauty-illustrations-K-Barker/dp/B0017XNZ10/ref=sr_1_11 |access-date=30 June 2025 |quote=Written by Sewell, illustrated by Barker}}
• {{cite book |last1=Barker |first1=Kathleen Frances |title=Just Pups: Sketches in pen and pencil |date=1937 |publisher=Country Life |location=London |url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/JUST-PUPS-SKETCHES-PENCIL-Barker/dp/B00ILBSC9G/ref=sr_1_2 |access-date=30 June 2025}}{{cite news |title=Just Pups |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000273/19371007/207/0007 |access-date=1 July 2025 |work=Yorkshire Evening Post |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |date=7 October 1937 |page=7 cols 6-8}}
• {{cite book |last1=Barker |first1=Kathleen Frances |title=Nothing but Horses |date=1937 |publisher=A. & C. Black ltd |location=London |edition=1 |url=https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL|access-date=30 June 2025}}
• {{cite book |last1=Ollivant |first1=Alfred |last2=Barker |first2=Kathleen Frances |title=Owd Bob: the Grey Dog of Kenmuir |date=1937 |publisher=William Heinemann |location=London |quote=Written by Ollivant, illustrated by Barker}}
• {{cite book |last1=Fitzgerald |first1=M. |last2=Barker |first2=K. F. |title=The Mouse's Hour |date=1937 |publisher=Country Life |location=London |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005089/19370203/119/0020 |access-date=6 July 2025|quote=Written by Fitzgerald, illustrated by Barker}}.{{cite news |title=Country Life Spring Books (advertisement) |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005089/19370203/119/0020 |access-date=6 July 2025|via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |work=Bookseller |date=3 February 1937 |page=20/100 col.2}}
• {{cite book |last1=Barker |first1=Kathleen Frances |title=Dog Days |date=1938 |publisher=William Heinemann |location=UK |url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Days-Drawings-Colour-Black-White/dp/B004YYVJKI/ref=sr_1_9 |access-date=30 June 2025 |quote=With drawings in colour and black and white}}
• {{cite book |last1=Barker |first1=Kathleen Frances. |title=Nothing but Dogs |date=1938 |publisher=Adam and Charles Black |location=UK |edition=1 |url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nothing-but-Dogs-K-Barker/dp/B00087R8TQ/ref=sr_1_5 |access-date=30 June 2025}}
• {{cite book |last1=Cornwallis-West |first1=G. |last2=Barker |first2=Kathleen Frances |title=Us Dogs |date=1938 |publisher=Country Life |location=London|quote=Written by Cornwallis-West, illustrated by Barker.}}
• {{cite book |last1=Barker |first1=Kathleen Frances |title=Rogues' Gallery |date=1939 |publisher=Heinemann |location=London}}
• {{cite book |last1=Barker |first1=Kathleen Frances |title=The Young Entry.: Fox-hunting, Beagling and Otter-Hunting for Beginners |date=1939 |publisher=A & C Black |location=London}}
• {{cite book |last1=Stern |first1=G.B. |last2=Barker |first2=Kathleen Frances |title=Dogs in an Omnibus (Short Story Index Reprint Series) |date=1942 |publisher=Ayer Co Pub |isbn=978-0836936056 |url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Omnibus-Short-Story-Index-Reprint/dp/0836936051/ref=sr_1_3 |access-date=30 June 2025 |quote=Written by Stern, illustrated by Barker. This collection includes: The Dark Gentleman, Toes Unmasked, The Ugly Dachshund.}}
• {{cite book |last1=Stern |first1=G.B. |last2=Barker |first2=Kathleen Frances |title=The Ugly Dachshund |date=1942 |publisher=J. N. Townsend Publishing |location=U.K. |isbn=9781880158159 |url=https://www.abebooks.co.uk/Ugly-Dachshund-Stern-Barker-Kathleen-Frances/31271321019/bd |access-date=29 June 2025 |quote=Republished 1998. Authored by Stern, illustrated by Barker.}}
• {{cite book |last1=Jeans |first1=Angela |last2=Barker |first2=Kathleen Frances |title=Harry the Peke |date=1950 |publisher=A.& C. Black Ltd |location=London |url=https://www.abebooks.co.uk/Harry-Peke-Angela-Jeans-Black-London/22619920947/bd |access-date=29 June 2025 |quote=Written by Jeans, illustrated by Barker.}}
• {{cite book |last1=Barker |first1=Kathleen Frances |title=The January Tortoise |date=1955 |publisher=George G. Harrap & Co. |location=London}}
• {{cite book |last1=Barker |first1=Kathleen Frances |title=The Mole who was Different |date=1955 |publisher=George G. Harrap & Co. |location=London}}
• {{cite book |last1=Barker |first1=Kathleen Frances |title=The Wood by the Water |date=1957 |location=UK |url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wood-Water-Written-illustrated-Barker/dp/B000WFDQEK/ref=sr_1_6 |access-date=30 June 2025 |quote=Written and illustrated by K.F. Barker}}
• {{cite book |last1=Barker |first1=Kathleen Frances |title=There Are Tigers About |date=1958 |publisher=Harrap |location=UK |url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/There-Tigers-About-K-F-BARKER/dp/B0028FWGSE/ref=sr_1_8 |access-date=30 June 2025}}
• {{cite book |last1=Smythe |first1=R.H. |last2=Barker |first2=Kathleen Frances |title=How Animals Talk |date=1959 |publisher=Country Life |location=London|quote=Written by Smythe, illustrated by Barker.}}
• {{cite book |last1=Barker |first1=Kathleen Frances |title=Me and my dog: The pedigree boxer and the alley kitten |date=1961 |publisher=Country Life Books |location=London |edition=1 |url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Me-dog-pedigree-boxer-kitten/dp/B0000CL5RX/ref=sr_1_7 |access-date=30 June 2025}}

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• [https://chrisbeetles.com/artist/830/kathleen-frances-barker Christ Beetles Gallery: examples of Barker's drawings]
• [https://www.invaluable.com/artist/barker-kathleen-frances-9aosacfnva/sold-at-auction-prices/ Invaluable: examples of Barker's drawings]

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