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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Photograph of a charcoal drawing of Baroness Barbarina Brand Dacre. The image is oval, showing her seated at a three-quarter turn, wearing a dark, high-waisted dress with a low neckline and puffed sleeves. She has short, dark, curly hair, and wears a single-strand necklace.

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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...
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.
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Wealth and Poverty Mary Russell Mitford
The prime movers of this achievement were Henry F. Chorley (who later edited her letters) and the Rev. William Harness ; the name of Queen Victoria headed the list of subscribers.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
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Pigrome, Stella. “Mary Russell Mitford”. The Charles Lamb Bulletin, Vol.
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, Charles Lamb Society, pp. 53-62.
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