Barnes' first original play was the blank verse drama Octavia Bragaldi, or, The Confession, which took the Beauchamp–Sharp Tragedy (the 1825 murder of Kentucky legislator Solomon P. Sharp by Jereboam O. Beauchamp) and set it in 15th century Milan, a popular trope of the day.
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Her first attempt was a stage adaptation of the novel The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
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She also adapted the Joseph Holt Ingraham novel Lafitte, The Pirate of the Gulf, about the French Gulf of Mexico pirate Jean Lafitte who helped win the Battle of New Orleans.
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In 1846, she married the actor Edmond S. Connor and together they would appear on stage at and later manage the Arch Street Theatre in Philadelphia.
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