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
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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...
Textual Production
Catherine Fanshawe
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. Editor Lyster, Gertrude, John Murray.
21
The...
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...
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...
Textual Production
Mary Ann Kelty
According to a reminiscence from the early half of 1868 by a reader who had been a Cambridge
undergraduate when the book appeared, MAK
first thought of titling her novel after its heroine, but was...
Dedications
Mary Ann Kelty
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.
163
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. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers.
2: 119-20
Other friends from this period or soon afterwards included the future poet and novelist Caroline Norton
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...
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
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...
Travel
Mary Russell Mitford
Scholar Katie Halsey notes that she positioned herself at the heart of a network of literary people, both male and female, and dedicated much of her time to forming and keeping up literary friendships.
Halsey, Katie. “Tell Me of some Booklings: Mary Russell Mitford’s Female Literary Networks”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
116: 195
Pigrome, Stella. “Mary Russell Mitford”. The Charles Lamb Bulletin, Vol.
66
, Charles Lamb Society, pp. 53-62.
54
It...
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
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. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers.
2: 165
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Texts
Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre,. Dramas, Translations and Occasional Poems. John Murray, 1821.
Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre,. Frogs and Bulls. A Liliputian Piece. Ridgway, 1838.
Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre,. Ina. John Murray, 1815.
Sullivan, Arabella Jane. Recollections of a Chaperon. Editor Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre, Richard Bentley, 1833.
Sullivan, Arabella Jane. Tales of the Peerage, and the Peasantry. Editor Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre, John Murray, 1835.
Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre,. Translations from the Italian. C. Whittingham, 1836.