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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Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Lady Mary Walker
Her illegitimate grand-daughter Mary was taken back after LMW 's death by her father, Ugo Foscolo , who had settled in London, where he had arrived on 11 September 1816. Mary brought him the...
Dedications Mary Ann Kelty
She dedicated it to Barbarina, Lady Dacre , because their names had been associated. This was the first time MAK published for money.
Kelty, Mary Ann. Reminiscences of Thought and Feeling. W. Pickering.
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Dedications Fanny Kemble
Kemble dedicated it to her older friend Barbarina, Lady Dacre , although Dacre had queried both its coarseness of language and a scene set in a bedchamber, as unfitting to a work by a young...

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