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Mrs. Barbarina Brand, Lady Dacre
(Born: 1768 - Died: May 17, 1854)
English playwright, translator, sculptor and poet. Barbarina Ogle was the third daughter of Hester Thomas and Admiral Sir Chaloner Ogle. She married Valentine Henry Wilmot in 1789. After his death, she married Thomas Brand, the 20th Baron Dacre, on December 4, 1819. Baron Dacre died in 1851. According to the Gentleman’s Magazine, Tales of Peerage and Peasantry was actually written by her daughter, Mrs. Arabella Jane Sullivan (1796-1839), the author of “Ellen Wareham.” Arabella Wilmot married Frederick Sullivan.
- Review of Tales of the Peerage and the Peasantry (December 1835, text “A” — Southern Literary Messenger)
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- “Obituary,” Gentleman’s Magazine (London), September 1854, 42:296-297
- Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943.
- Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978. (Second printing 1979)
- Thomas, Dwight and David K. Jackson, The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849, Boston: G. K. Hall & Sons, 1987.
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