Maria Edgeworth
read this novel on its appearance (firmly preferring it to Jane Austen's Emma), and two years later mentioned it as the title defining FJ
's achievement.
Despite the success of these editing ventures, when a generation later BBBD
's grand-daughter Lady Grey
thought of publishing a tale and using her grandmother's name as her mother had done, Dacre said that her...
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Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre
BBBD
was a conscientious and entertaining letter-writer with a large circle of correspondents. The Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
holds a collection of her correspondence from the 1840s with Frances Parker, Countess of Morley