Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre
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Standard Name: Dacre, Barbarina Brand,,, Baroness
Birth Name: Barbarina Ogle
Used Form: Barbarina Wilmot
Used Form: Lady Dacre
BBBD
wrote as an amateur in the Romantic period. She wrote dramatic works, mostly tragedies, often adapted from texts by other authors, and poems, mostly occasional verse and often translated from poems by others. Her versions of sonnets by Petrarch
were particularly admired. Many of her plays were comedies written for amateur theatricals (one of them for her grandchildren); family connections enabled her to have one of her serious historical plays staged at Drury Lane
.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
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She dedicated it to Barbarina, Lady Dacre
, because their names had been associated. This was the first time MAK
published for money.
Kelty, Mary Ann. Reminiscences of Thought and Feeling. W. Pickering, 1852.
163
Dedications
Fanny Kemble
Kemble dedicated it to her older friend Barbarina, Lady Dacre
, although Dacre had queried both its coarseness of language and a scene set in a bedchamber, as unfitting to a work by a young...
Family and Intimate relationships
Lady Mary Walker
Her illegitimate grand-daughter Mary was taken back after LMW
's death by her father, Ugo Foscolo
, who had settled in London, where he had arrived on 11 September 1816. Mary brought him the...
Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Russell Mitford
MRM
had numbers of Irish relations, including the novelist Barbarina Brand, Lady Dacre
.
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. L’Estrange, Alfred Guy KinghamEditor , Harper and Brothers, 1870.
2: 165
Fictionalization
Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale
Extended accounts of WMCN
have often been fictional. In Tales of the Peerage and the Peasantry, 1835, written by Arabella Jane Sullivan
but edited by Barbarina Brand, Lady Dacre
, her life story occupies...
Friends, Associates
Mary Tighe
Before she left London, MT
met there her fellow Irish poet Tom Moore
. He subsequently visited her in Dublin and complimented her in verse. She exchanged poems with Barbarina Wilmot (later Lady Dacre)
...
Friends, Associates
Fanny Kemble
Mary Russell Mitford
was another who knew FK
well even apart from their connection through the theatre.
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. L’Estrange, Alfred Guy KinghamEditor , Harper and Brothers, 1870.
2: 119-20
Other friends from this period or soon afterwards included the future poet and novelist Caroline Norton
Literary responses
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
In probably 1836, Mary Russell Mitford
signalled her friendship for Lady Dacre
by sendng her Barrett's Prometheus Bound and An Essay on Mind, with praise for her power of writing, the force, the fire...
Literary responses
Lady Caroline Lamb
William Lamb
worried intensely about the probable reception of Ada Reis, particularly the scenes in hell, and he tried to enlist William Gifford
of the Quarterly as an ally in pressuring Caroline to tone...
Publishing
Anna Hume
The author's name appears respectfully as Mris [i.e. Mistress] Anna Hume. The main title-page prints Love, Chastitie, and Death one below the other and brackets them. The Triumph of Chastitie and The...
Publishing
Anne Marsh
Harriet Martineau
was amazed when AM
first read her one of these tales, The Admiral's Daughter, and felt that their hostess later that evening (Sarah Wedgwood
) must have been almost equally amazed...
Reception
Catherine Gore
When CG
's play won the prize, a storm of controversy arose, in which the result was contested and every aspect of the selection process subjected to scrutiny and argument. There were rumours of fixing...
Reception
Mary Russell Mitford
She contacted several people (including the novelist Lady Dacre
and the Whig hostess and diarist Lady Holland
) for support in her application, which was fuelled by the examples of the pensions granted to Sydney Morgan
Barbarina Brand, Lady Dacre
, later wrote that she owned a copy of the Riddle on the Letter H in Fanshawe's handwriting dating from around 1806, before anyone had heard of Byron
.
Barbarina Charlotte, Lady Grey,. A Family Chronicle. Lyster, GertrudeEditor , John Murray, 1908.
