Brand Barbarina, Lady Dacre (1768–1854) was an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 poet, playwright, and translator.

Barbarina was the daughter of Admiral Sir Chaloner Ogle, 1st Baronet

Sir Chaloner Ogle, 1st Baronet

Sir Chalonor Ogle was an Admiral in the British navy.He was the son of Nathaniel Ogle of Kirkley Hall, Northumberland....

 (d. 1816), and Hester (née Thomas). In 1789 she married Valentine Henry Wilmot, an officer in the guards, though they later separated. The couple had one daughter, Arabella (1796–1839). After Wilmot's death in 1819 she married Thomas Brand, 20th Baron Dacre

Thomas Brand, 20th Baron Dacre

Thomas Brand, 20th Baron Dacre was a British peer and Whig politician.-Background:Dacre was the eldest son of Thomas Brand, of The Hoo, Hertfordshire, and Gertrude, 19th Baroness Dacre, daughter of the Hon...

 (1774–1851), later that same year.

Educated at home, she became "one of the most accomplished women of her time": in addition to her writing, she sculpted, rode, was proficient in both French and Italian, and maintained an extensive correspondence with a circle of other literary women, including Joanna Baillie

Joanna Baillie

Joanna Baillie was a Scottish poet and dramatist. Baillie was very well known during her lifetime and, though a woman, intended her plays not for the closet but for the stage. Admired both for her literary powers and her sweetness of disposition, she hosted a brilliant literary society in her...

, Mary Russell Mitford

Mary Russell Mitford

Mary Russell Mitford , was an English author and dramatist. She was born at Alresford, Hampshire. Her place in English literature is as the author of Our Village...

, and Catherine Maria Fanshawe

Catherine Maria Fanshawe

Catherine Maria Fanshawe was an English poet. The daughter of a Surrey squire, she wrote clever occasional verse. Her best-known production is the...

.

Her final years were marred by the death of her daughter Arabella Sullivan in 1839, and by the loss of her hearing.

Published works

• Dramas, Translations, and Occasional Poems (2 vols., privately printed in 1821), including

• Gonzalvo of Cordova (1810, based on de Florian's
  Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian
  Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian was a French poet and romance writer.-Life:...
  
   Gonzalve de Cordone [1791])
• Pedarias, a Tragic Drama (1811, based on Marmontel's
  Jean-François Marmontel
  Jean-François Marmontel was a French historian and writer, a member of the Encyclopediste movement.-Biography:He was born of poor parents at Bort, Limousin...
  
   Les Incas)
• Ina, a tragedy in five acts (produced at Drury Lane
  Drury Lane
  Drury Lane is a street on the eastern boundary of the Covent Garden area of London, running between Aldwych and High Holborn. The northern part is in the borough of Camden and the southern part in the City of Westminster....
  
   in 1815 under Sheridan
  Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan was an Irish-born playwright and poet and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. For thirty-two years he was also a Whig Member of the British House of Commons for Stafford , Westminster and Ilchester...
  
  ; printed the same year)
• Xarifa (drama)
  • Forty-five pages of her translated sonnets were published in Ugo Foscolo's
    Ugo Foscolo
    Ugo Foscolo , born Niccolò Foscolo, was an Italian writer, revolutionary and poet.-Biography:Foscolo was born on the Ionian island of Zakynthos...
    
     Essays on Petrarch
    Petrarch
    Francesco Petrarca , known in English as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar, poet and one of the earliest humanists. Petrarch is often called the "Father of Humanism"...
    
    (1823)
  • Editor, Recollections of a Chaperon by Arabella Sullivan (short stories, 1831)
  • Editor, Tales of the Peerage and Peasantry by Arabella Sullivan (short stories, 1835)
  • Translations from the Italian (privately printed in 1836)

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