Barbarina Brand, Baroness 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 .