Barbara Hofland

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Standard Name: Hofland, Barbara
Birth Name: Barbara Wreaks
Married Name: Barbara Hoole
Married Name: Barbara Hofland
Pseudonym: An Old-Fashioned Englishman
Pseudonym: Benjamin Blunderhead, Esq.
Pseudonym: The Author of an Officer's Widow and her Young Family
Pseudonym: The Author of Says She to Her Neighbour, What?
In forty years of writing BH produced nearly seventy titles, not all discussed here (besides doubtful attributions). They include books for children or young adults and adult novels, with some poems, plays, guidebooks, and handbooks on artistic topics. More than 300,000 copies were sold in Britain and as many, proportionately to population, in the USA. Many were translated, covering most European languages.
Ramsay, Thomas. The Life and Literary Remains of Barbara Hofland. W. J. Cleaver.
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Though her titles fall naturally into groups, named (in later parlance branded) from family relationships (notably widows as struggling, successful single mothers), or virtues, or boys' careers in the expanding British empire, BH always varies her formulas. Her novels for the adult market are independent in their attitudes, expressing an original and thinking mind.
Black and white photograph of a stipple engraving, published 1823 (National Portrait Gallery), of a painting of Barbara Hofland, shown from the waist up, wearing a simple dark dress with a light lace-trimmed shawl around her shoulders. Her dark curly hair is covered with a turban-style bonnet. Underneath in italic script is written "Mrs. Hofland / Author of The Son of a Genius - Integrity, a tale, &c, &c."

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Sarah Pearson
The thousand subscribers to SP 's first publication suggest that she had an impressive circle of friends and contacts in Sheffield and also in the Channel Islands. She and her writings were well known...
Occupation Sarah Pearson
SP was a protégée (rather than a servant)
Jung, Sandro. “Susanna Pearson and the <span data-tei-ns-tag="">Elegiac</span> Lyric”. Studia Neophilologica: A Journal of Germanic and Romance Languages and Literature, Vol.
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, No. 2, pp. 153-64.
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Basker, James G., editor. Amazing Grace. Yale University Press.
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of Charlotte, Countess Fitzwilliam (c. 1750-13 May 1822), to whom she dedicated her first publication. Lady Fitzwilliam was also a patron to Barbara Hofland and...
Wealth and Poverty Sarah Pearson
SP made her will on 19 November 1832. James Montgomery was one of the executors. She left bequests to Ebenezer and Mary Rhodes and their seven children (who by this date were probably in need)...
Textual Production Sarah Pearson
It seems that SP continued to value her writing, while recognising that it was not valued by others. She kept a considerable archive, but instructed her friend Barbara Hofland in her will to read all...
Education Christina Rossetti
Christina and her siblings were educated by their mother , in reading, writing, the Bible and rudimentary French. The boys were sent to school when they were seven, while the girls continued at home. Their...
Friends, Associates Agnes Strickland
They began to build a network of literary friends and potential supporters: Thomas Campbell , Robert Southey , Charles Lamb , editor William Jerdan , and even more helpfully women like Barbara Hofland , Jane
Textual Production Agnes Strickland
Even before settling in London, AS began her professional authorial career with tales for children, many published in The Parting Gift, of which she was at that time the editor.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus.
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She published...
Textual Production Annie Tinsley
AT , as the author of Margaret; or, Prejudice at Home, published a novel with a female first-person protagonist, Women as They Are. By One of Them.
The title of Women as They...
Textual Production Charlotte Maria Tucker
An anonymous publisher in Stickney, South Dakota, put out an undated modern reprint.
“The A.L.O.E. (Charlotte Maria Tucker) Resource”. Peter and Rachel Reynolds: Used Christian Books.
Bunyan , along with the Bible, was one of CMT 's primary literary influences. Whether or not she knew it, she...
Textual Production Eglinton Wallace
It appeared in two different editions put out this year through the different publishers T. Hookham , and Debrett . The Debrett edition lists the price, one shilling and sixpence, on the title-page.
“Eighteenth Century Collections Online”. Gale Databases.
Goethe's novel...

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Texts

Hofland, Barbara. Patience and Perseverance; or, The Modern Griselda. Minerva, 1813.
Hofland, Barbara. Poems. Printed by J. Montgomery, and sold by Vernor and Hood, 1805.
Hofland, Barbara. Reflection. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1826.
Hofland, Barbara. Rich Boys and Poor Boys. A. K. Newman, 1833.
Hofland, Barbara, and William Bernard Cooke. Richmond, and its Surrounding Scenery. W. B. Cooke, 1832.
Hofland, Barbara. Says She to her Neighbour, What?. Minerva, 1812.
Hofland, Barbara. Self-Denial. A Tale. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1827.
Hofland, Barbara. Tales of the Manor. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1822.
Hofland, Barbara. Tales of the Priory. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1820.
Hofland, Barbara. Tales, in Verse. Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1810.
Hofland, Barbara. The Captives in India. R. Bentley, 1834.
Hofland, Barbara. The Czarina. H. Colburn, 1842.
Hofland, Barbara. The Daughter of a Genius. J. Harris, 1823.
Hofland, Barbara. The Daughter-in-Law, her Father, and Family. A. K. Newman, 1829.
Hofland, Barbara. The Funeral. A Monody to the Memory of Princess Charlotte. Bentham and Ray, 1817.
Hofland, Barbara. The Godmother’s Tales. A. K. Newman, 1842.
Hofland, Barbara. The Good Grandmother and her Offspring. R. Hunter, 1817.
Hofland, Barbara. The History of an Officer’s Widow and her Young Family. J. Harris, 1809.
Hofland, Barbara. The King’s Son: A Romance of English History. H. Colburn, 1843.
Hofland, Barbara. The Merchant’s Widow and her Family. Minerva, 1814.
Hofland, Barbara. The Merchant’s Widow and Her Family. A. K. Newman, 1823.
Hofland, Barbara. The Panorama of Europe; or, A New Game of Geography. Minerva, 1813.
Hofland, Barbara. The Sisters. Minerva, 1813.
Hofland, Barbara. The Son of a Genius. J. Harris, 1812.
Hofland, Barbara. The Son of a Genius. J. Harris, 1836.