Between them the O'Donovans had until recently controlled approximately 100,000 acres (400 km2) in the Barony of Carbery, as well as several profitable harbours, including Glandore, where Clan Loughlin was based.
Her uncle Mortogh Donovan, elder brother of her father Rickard of Camolin, was Justice of the Peace and High Sheriff for County Wexford.
Contributing to the countess's poor image was the poet Dorothea Dubois, dispossessed daughter of Richard Annesley by his earlier wife or partner Ann Simpson, whom he had set aside for Juliana in 1740 or 1741.
Dubois devoted some lines of her poetry to her feelings and imaginations about this sad affair, and the countess is the "Tenant's Daughter" referred to in the following passage:[5] Transient Felicity!
Anglesus grewUnkind to Anna, sigh'd for something New;Beheld a Tenant's Daughter with Desire,Nor scrupled to indulge the guilty Fire.Tho' mean the Nymph, and common to MankindShe gain'd an Empire o'er his fickle Mind;Contriv'd such Schemes, and us'd such subtile Art,She soon, alas!