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Barbara Hofland (1770 – 4 November 1844) was an English writer of some 66 didactic, moral stories for children, and of schoolbooks and poetry. ==Life== Born Barbara Wreaks or Wreakes, her father Robert Wreakes was a Sheffield manufacturer, but he died when she was three and she was raised by a maiden aunt. She began writing for the local paper and started a milliner's shop, but she sold it when she married the businessman Thomas Bradshawe Hoole in 1796, only to be widowed two years later with an infant son.〔Dennis Butts: The role of women writers in early children's literature. In: ''Aspects and Issues in the History of Children's Literature''. Ed. Maria Nikolajeva (Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press, 1995). ISBN 0-313-29614-6.〕 She went to live with her mother-in-law in Attercliffe, and supported herself partly from generous subscriptions given for a book of her poetry.〔''Poems'' (Sheffield: J. Montgomery, 1805).〕 In 1809 she opened a girls' boarding school at Grove House, Harrogate, developing it as a ladies finishing school, a forerunner to what is now Harrogate College. But she kept it only until 1811, when she moved to London. In 1810 she married landscape artist, Thomas Christopher Hofland (1777–1843). Although her new husband had a good local reputation and had exhibited at the Royal Academy, his wife's writings were to remain the main source of family income. In 1816 she was living in Newman Street, north of Oxford Street,〔(). Retrieved 29 July 2010.〕 but they moved to Twickenham that year. Her son Frederic, an Anglican priest, predeceased her in 1832, as did her husband in 1843. She died in on 4 November 1844 and was buried at Richmond, Surrey.〔Butts, op. cit.; Megan A. Norcia: ''X Marks the Spot: Women Writers Map the Empire for British Children, 1790–1895''. Chapter 1. (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2010). ISBN 978-0-8214-1907-6. (). Retrieved 29 July 2010; ''The Concise Dictionary of National Biography'' (London: Oxford University Press, 1939); (). Retrieved 29 July 2010; .〕 Her life by Thomas Ramsay was published in 1849.〔''The Life and Literary Remains of Barbara Hofland'' (London, 1849).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Barbara Hofland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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