Dorothea Du Bois

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DDB 's traumatic family romance made her a writer with an obsession. Her father's guilt and her mother's victimhood recur throughout her works: poems, plays, novel, legal statement—everything but her edited anthology. But she is a lively, vigorous, and versatile eighteenth-century writer, with strong feminist and Irish feeling.

Milestones

1728

Dorothea Annesley (later DDB ) was born in Ireland.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.

1773

DDB 's final stage piece, The Haunted Grove, was performed in Dublin; it was never published and is now lost.
Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press.
386

By February 1774

DDB died in Grafton Street, Dublin, of an apoplectic fit.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
44 (1774): 94

Biography

A Dysfunctional Family

1728

Dorothea Annesley (later DDB ) was born in Ireland.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.

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