SB
's birth family is so far untraced. She may have been distantly related to the Irish Jacobite military hero James Butler, Duke of Ormond
, but is not to be found among his immediate relations.
Butler, Sarah. “Introduction”. Irish Tales, edited by Ian Campbell Ross et al., Four Courts Press, 2010, pp. 9-31.
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politics
Jane Barker
JB
, in her capacity as an active Jacobite, wrote advising the Duke of Ormond
(in code) regarding a suitable time to invade Britain.
King, Kathryn R., and Jeslyn Medoff. “Jane Barker and Her Life (1652-1732): The Documentary Record”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
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, No. 3, Nov. 1997, pp. 16-38.
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Wilson, Carol Shiner, and Jane Barker. “Introduction”. The Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. xv - xliv.