Barbarina Brand

Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre (; 9 May 1767 – 17 May 1854), was an English poet, playwright, and translator. Brand maintained an extensive correspondence with a circle of other literary women, including Joanna Baillie, Mary Russell Mitford, and Catherine Maria Fanshawe.

Early life and education Barbarina Ogle was born on 9 May 1767 in the Kingdom of Great Britain to Admiral Sir Chaloner Ogle, 1st Baronet and Hester Ogle (née Thomas). and was godmother to Hoppner's granddaughter, Helen Clarence. In 1821, her poetical works were printed, but not published, in two volumes octavo, under the title of Dramas, Translations, and Occasional Poems.

Personal life Brand had hearing loss. Brand and Wilmot had one daughter, the writer Arabella Sullivan.

Brand died on the 17 May 1854 in Chesterfield Street, Mayfair, Westminster, London aged 87.

Selected works Dramas, Translations, and Occasional Poems (2 vols., privately printed in 1821), including Gonzalvo of Cordova (1810, based on de Florian's Gonzalve de Cordone ) Pedarias, a Tragic Drama (1811, based on Marmontel's Les Incas) Ina, a tragedy in five acts (produced at Drury Lane in 1815 under Sheridan; printed the same year) Xarifa (drama) Forty-five pages of her translated sonnets were published in Ugo Foscolo's Essays on Petrarch (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)