Barbara Hofland

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Standard Name: Hofland, Barbara
Birth Name: Barbara Wreaks
Married Name: Barbara Hoole
Married Name: Barbara Hofland
Pseudonym: An Old-Fashioned Englishman
Pseudonym: Benjamin Blunderhead, Esq.
Pseudonym: The Author of an Officer's Widow and her Young Family
Pseudonym: The Author of Says She to Her Neighbour, What?
In forty years of writing BH produced nearly seventy titles, not all discussed here (besides doubtful attributions). They include books for children or young adults and adult novels, with some poems, plays, guidebooks, and handbooks on artistic topics. More than 300,000 copies were sold in Britain and as many, proportionately to population, in the USA. Many were translated, covering most European languages.
Ramsay, Thomas. The Life and Literary Remains of Barbara Hofland. W. J. Cleaver.
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Though her titles fall naturally into groups, named (in later parlance branded) from family relationships (notably widows as struggling, successful single mothers), or virtues, or boys' careers in the expanding British empire, BH always varies her formulas. Her novels for the adult market are independent in their attitudes, expressing an original and thinking mind.

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Hofland, Barbara. The Stolen Boy. A. K. Newman, 1829.
Hofland, Barbara. The Young Cadet; or, Henry Delamere’s Voyage to India. J. Harris, 1827.
Hofland, Barbara. The Young Crusoe; or, The Shipwrecked Boy. A. K. Newman, 1829.
Hofland, Barbara. The Young Pilgrim; or, Alfred Campbell’s Return to the East. J. Harris, 1826.