Barbarina Brand

Playwright, Author

1768 – 1854

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Who was Barbarina Brand?

Barbarina Brand, Lady Dacre, was an English poet, playwright, and translator.

She was the daughter of Admiral Sir Chaloner Ogle, 1st Baronet, and Hester Thomas. In 1789 Barbarina married Valentine Henry Wilmot, an officer in the guards, though they later separated. The couple had one daughter, Arabella. After Wilmot's death in 1819 she married Thomas Brand, 20th Baron Dacre, 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, Mary Russell Mitford, and Catherine Maria Fanshawe.

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

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Born
1768
Nationality
  • England
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Died
1854

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on July 23, 2013

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