Barbarina Brand, Lady Dacre (née Ogle; 1768 – May 17, 1854), was an English poet, playwright, and translator. 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. Early life and education Barbarina Ogle was born in 1768. She was the third daughter of Admiral Sir Chaloner Ogle, 1st Baronet (died 1816), and Hester Thomas (daughter of John Thomas, Bishop of Winchester). Her brother was Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, 2nd Baronet. Her sister, Sophia, was married to General Sir Charles Asgill, 2nd Baronet. Educated at home, she became "one of the most accomplished women of her time": Career In 1789, she married Valentine Henry Wilmot, of Farnborough, Hampshire, an officer in the guards, though they later separated. The couple had one daughter, Arabella Jane (Wilmont) Sullivan (1796–1839). After Wilmot's death in 1819, she married Thomas Brand, 20th Baron Dacre (1774–1851), later that same year. He died without issue. Lady Dacre was one of the most accomplished and intellectual women of her time. In 1821, her poetical works were printed, but not published, in two volumes octavo, under the title of Dramas, Translations, and Occasional Poems. By Barbarina Lady Dacre. Some of these were dated in the 18th century. They included four dramas, the first of which, Gonzalvo of Cordova, was written in 1810. In the character of the great captain, the author followed the novel of Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian. The next, Pedrarias, a tragic drama, was written in May 1811; and its story was derived from Les Incas of Jean-François Marmontel. Her third dramatic work was Ina, a tragedy in five acts, the plot of which was laid in Saxon times in England. 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