Eglantine Wallace

According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, she was "[a] boisterous hoyden in her youth, and a woman of violent temper in her maturer years.

Her comedy The Ton; or, Follies of Fashion was produced at Covent Garden on 8 April 1788 with a good cast, but, according to John Genest, the production was "very dull.

[4] Her next play, The Whim (1795), was prohibited from the stage by the Lord Chamberlain and she left England in apparent disgust.

There she began a relationship with General Charles François Dumouriez, and while her social standing was apparently unaffected, she was the occasional subject of salacious satires.

She died at Munich on 28 March 1803, leaving two sons, the elder of whom was General [Sir] John Alexander Dunlop Agnew Wallace.

engraved drawing of ten Regency-era women
"Hints towards a change of ministry" (London: S.W. Fores, 1797), a satiric print by Isaac Cruikshank , targets 1. Jane Gordon , 2. Mary Isabella Somerset , 3. Albinia Hobart , 4. Elizabeth Craven , 5. Sarah Archer , 6. Dorothea Jordan , 7. Eglantine Wallace, depicted scowling and wearing martial dress, 8. Emily Cecil , 9. Letitia Lade , and 10. Frances Villiers . (British Library)
Drawing of a thin man dressed in black speaking to a curvaceous woman in an outdoor urban setting.
"A tender salute & pleasant reply" (Artist unknown; London: Laurie & Whittle, 1804) apparently satirizes Eglantine Wallace: " 'A Celebrated Scotch advocate happening some Years ago to meet Lady W------ complimented her Ladyship on looking so well "Lord!" said she "I am as fat as a Whale!" - "I wish I were Jonah." - '. (British Library)