Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre

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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.

Milestones

9 May 1768

Barbarina Ogle (later BBBD ) was born, the third daughter in a family of six children who lived to grow up.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Barbarina Charlotte, Lady Grey,. A Family Chronicle. Editor Lyster, Gertrude, John Murray.
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Fisher, D. R., editor. The History of Parliament. The House of Commons 1820-1832. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/research/members/members-1820-1832.
under Ogle, Sir Charles

February 1801

This seems to have been the earliest date that Barbarina Wilmot (later BBBD ) attached to a poem in her printed collection. She gives this date to a sonnet inspired by a dream.
Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre,. Dramas, Translations and Occasional Poems. John Murray.
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1810

Barbarina Wilmot (later Lady Dacre) began work on her earliest play (of the four published in 1821): Gonzalvo of Cordova, which she based on a part of the little novel
Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre,. Dramas, Translations and Occasional Poems. John Murray.
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Gonzalve de Cordone, ou Grenade reconquise by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian , Paris 1791.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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under Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian

1838

Two years after implying that her Translations from the Italian would be her final publication, BBBD had fifty copies privately printed of a three-act play for children called Frogs and Bulls. A Liliputian Piece.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Barbarina Charlotte, Lady Grey,. A Family Chronicle. Editor Lyster, Gertrude, John Murray.
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17 May 1854

BBBD died in Chesterfield Street, London, at the age of eighty-six.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

Birth and Family

9 May 1768

Barbarina Ogle (later BBBD ) was born, the third daughter in a family of six children who lived to grow up.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Barbarina Charlotte, Lady Grey,. A Family Chronicle. Editor Lyster, Gertrude, John Murray.
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Fisher, D. R., editor. The History of Parliament. The House of Commons 1820-1832. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/research/members/members-1820-1832.
under Ogle, Sir Charles

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