BBBD
was a friend, from her youth onwards, of William Gilpin
and his brother Sawrey Gilpin
, a painter of animals; they each assumed a paternal relationship with her. Ugo Foscolo
was another significant literary...
Instructor
Anna Swanwick
At home her mother had read to her daughters, while they sewed, Greek and Roman history, and writers like Pope
, and Cowper
. At four Anna could recite long passages from Milton
's L'Allegro...
Textual Features
Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre
In a dedication to her grandchildren (unpaginated), BBBD
gives some history of her translations, made at different and distant periods of my life.
Dacre, Barbarina Brand, Baroness. Translations from the Italian. C. Whittingham, 1836.