Barbarina Brand

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.

Educated at home, she became "one of the most accomplished women of her time":[4] In 1789, she married Valentine Henry Wilmot, of Farnborough, Hampshire, an officer in the guards, though they later separated.

It was produced at Drury Lane on the 22 April 1815, under the management of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, to whose second wife, the daughter of Dr. Ogle, Dean of Winchester, the author was related.

It was not sufficiently successful to induce its repetition, for in the Times of the 24 April 1815, was printer: "The second representation of the new tragedy called Ina is postponed till further notice, at the express desire of the authoress."

It was printed in 1815 as produced on the stage; but in Lady Dacre's collected works, she restored "the original catastrophe, and some other parts which had been cut out."

Lady Dacre's book contained also several translations of the sonnets of Petrarch, some of which seemed to have been privately printed at an earlier date.

[6] She edited in 1831 Recollections of a Chaperon, and in 1838, Tales of the Peerage and Peasantry, both written by her only daughter Arabella Sullivan (the author of Ellen Wareham).