Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
Little is known of any literary contacts of MAK
. She met and became a friend of Barbara Hofland
, and in the early 1830s she sought [the] acquaintance by letter of Harriet Martineau
...
Textual Production
Felicia Hemans
These were collected in her next volume, Translations. Hemans joined a number of other women who had lamented the death of the princess in childbirth on 6 November 1817: Margaret Croker
, Susanna Watts
Textual Production
Elizabeth Ham
EH
anonymously contributed Mabel (a ghost story about a deaf girl) to an anthology, The Remembrance, edited by Thomas Roscoe
and dedicated to Queen Adelaide
.
The title of CG
's anonymous novel Women as They Are; or, The Manners of the Day, linked it to a reformist tradition running from Robert Bage
in 1792, through Barbara Hofland
in 1815...
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Barbara Hofland
admired her letters for the moral qualities (the female fortitude) they displayed.
Hofland, Barbara. The Captives in India. R. Bentley.
1: prelims
She gave some real incidents and situations from Fay's experience...
Friends, Associates
Eliza Fay
At some unknown date EF
met the novelist Barbara Hofland
, to whom she related the incident about the alleged buying of the slave.
Hofland, Barbara. The Captives in India. R. Bentley.
1: 193ff
Family and Intimate relationships
Maria Edgeworth
Maria mourned so intensely that she fell ill. She was pleased by a letter from Barbara Hofland
recognising the very special nature of her loss; on the other hand she was offended at Elizabeth Inchbald
Textual Production
Frances Hodgson Burnett
FHB
wrote The Two Little Pilgrims' Progress (whose title invokes Bunyan
and perhaps adapters of Bunyan like Mary Martha Sherwood
, Barbara Hofland
, and Charlotte Maria Tucker
), about the visit of orphan twins...
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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.