BARBARA BOTLAND, wife of Thomas Holland, was the daughter of Mr. Robert Wreaks, a partner in a manufactory at Sheffield, where she was born in 1770. In 1796 she married Mr. Hoole, a gentleman engaged In the same line of business as her father ; he died in about two years, lealiing her with a son. Some ten years later ehe became the wife of Mr. Holland, then a drawing-master at Derby. She had already employed her pen as a means of augmenting her income ; but after her removal to London the became one of the most prolific of the female writers of the day. Her works were chiefly addressed to theyoung, and their interesting style, narrative power, purity of morals, and instructive character, won for them extensive popularity both in England and America, where several of them were reprinted. According to her biographer, "nearly 300,000 copies of her works were sold during her life." One of the earliest of the publications which secured her reputation was the Clergyman's Widow;' but the best, as well as the most generally known of her works, was the Son of a Genius,' of which twenty editions have been printed here, and which, as well as being several times reprinted in America, has had the fortune to be translated into several languages. Of her other
works, it may be enough to mention 'The Daughter-in-Law;' Emily;' the series bearing the titles of ' Energy," Self-Denial," Decision,' and the other moral virtues ; The Czarina;' ' Says She to her Neighbour —What 1' King's Son ;" Young Crissoe;" Little Dramas for Young People ;" Tales of the Manor' (which, like several other of her stories, is in four volumes); and 'Emily's Reward, or a Holiday Trip to Paris,' finished just before her death. Her writings are the reflex of her character, which was in every respect amiable. She survived her second husband scarcely two years, and one of her latest literary productions was a brief memoir of him, which she contributed to the Art Journal' of March 1843, and to which we are indebted for most of the facts in our notice of him. She died on the 9th of November 1844. A brief memoir of her life by Mr. T. Ramsay, with a selection from her literary remains, appeared in 1349.