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Sullivan, Arabella (1796-1839)
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née Arabella Jane Wilmot; Mrs. Arabella Sullivan; Arabella Brand?; A. B. pseudonym: A Chaperon
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story writer
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English; baptized in London Cushing gives death year as 1849, and wrongly says maiden name is Brand, which was her stepfather's surname (though perhaps she used it?).
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daughter of Barbarina Ogle (later Brand, Lady Dacre) & Valentine Henry Wilmot; stepdaughter of Thomas Brand; wife of Revd Frederick Sullivan
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- Browne, William Hardcastle. Famous Women of History: Containing Nearly 3000 Brief Biographies and Over 1000 Female Pseudonyms. Philadelphia: Arnold & Co., 1895.
- FamilySearch
- (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography for Barbarina Brand, Lady Dacre)
- Cushing, William. Initials and Pseudonyms: A Dictionary of Literary Disguises. N.Y.: T. Y. Crowell & Company, [1867, 1885, etc.].
- FindAGrave.com
- Wikipedia (https://www.wikipedia.org/)
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• wrote Recollections of a Chaperon Tales of the Peerage and Peasantry