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Barbara Hofland
Barbara Hofland (1770 – 4 November 1844) was an English writer of some 66 didactic, moral stories for children, and of schoolbooks and poetry. She was asked by John Soane to write a description of his still extant museum in London's Lincoln's Inn Fields.
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
- Hartwell Horne, Thomas, Contributor William Finden, Edward Francis Finden (1836):"Landscape Illustrations of the Bible: Consisting of Views of the Most Remarkable Places Mentioned in the Old and New Testaments : from Original Sketches Taken on the Spot"
- Henniker, Frederick, (1823): "Notes, During a Visit to Egypt, Nubia, the Oasis, Mount Sinai, and Jerusalem", Published by J. Murray, 340 pages
- Hofland (Barbara), Mrs Hofland, John Harris, John Harris (Firm)