Hannah Brand

[1] At the Miss Brands' Academy for Young Ladies, day and boarding students were taught English Language, needlework, writing, arithmetic, drawing, music, dancing and French.

[4] A subsequent performance by the Drury-Lane company at the Haymarket on 19 January 1792, however, in which she herself appeared (despite having to combat a cold) as the heroine, was not successful.

It was reported {quote 'On 29 March 1792 in The Battle of Hexham the part of Queen Margaret was attempted by local playwright Hannah Brand at Norwich'.

This work will be printed woven paper, made on purpose, and .with an entire new type, cast by Fry.

Miss H. BRAND most respectfully entreats those who intend to honour her with their patronage, to favour her with their names as soon as possible, that the subscription may closed, and the book sent to the press.

She subsequently gave up the stage and became a governess to a family in Woodbridge, though after her arrival there was apparently "much unpleasantness between husband and wife.

When blooms the cheek with roseate, varying dyes; When modest grace exerts each power to please, And Streaming lustre radiates in the eyes.

Now chearful dawns the day, noon brightly beams, And evening comes serene, nor cares controul, And night approaches with soft infant dreams Circling, the morn beholds th' accustom'd round, Life's smiling charities awake and joys abound.

When she died, she left small bequests to family members and the bulk of her estate, £200, to Mary Ware, a widow.