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Joanna Baillie
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Standard Name: Baillie, Joanna
Birth Name: Joanna Baillie
Nickname: Jack
Self-constructed Name: Mrs Joanna Baillie
JB
is best known for her stylistically and thematically innovative drama, published from 1798 and through the first two decades of the nineteenth century. Her poetry is now also beginning to be appreciated and a scholarly edition of her letters is available in print and on line. She also published a poetry anthology. Whether regarded from the viewpoint of Scotland or that of London, she is one of the important writers of her generation.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Lady Louisa Stuart | LLS
was introduced as a young woman into the Bluestocking circle. Her friendship with the younger Louisa Clinton
produced some attractive letters and that with Frances, Lady Douglas
, produced a remarkable memoir. Lady Douglas's... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Berry | Despite her relative poverty, MB
moved easily in circles of the great and the good. Her closest friends were Anne Damer
(whose death in 1828 was a terrible loss), Joanna Baillie
(whom in 1831 she... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Somerville | The Somervilles' circle was not purely a scientific one, and MS
became a friend of the actress Lady Becher
and with the Baillie family. She accompanied Joanna Baillie
to the opening of the latter's play... |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Brownell Jameson | Lady Byron subsequently introduced Jameson to Joanna Baillie
, and Jameson in turn introduced Lady Byron to her friend Harriet Martineau
. Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press, 1967. 91 |
| Friends, Associates | Maria Callcott | During the early years of her first marriage, between her time in India and in Italy, Maria Graham (later MC
) met Jane Marcet
and the publisher John Murray
. Gotch, Rosamund Brunel. Maria, Lady Callcott, The Creator of ’Little Arthur’. J. Murray, 1937. 153-4, 166 |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Russell Mitford | Among her earlier literary friends, MRM
wrote with particular warmth of Barbara Hofland
(with whom she stayed in London for the first night of her play Julian), Eleanor Porden
, and Joanna Baillie
... |
| Friends, Associates | Maria Callcott | Her friends at this period of her life included the diarist and letter-writer Caroline Fox
(with whom her relationship was very close), This is the Hon. Caroline Fox (1767-1845), not to be confused with the... |
| Friends, Associates | Anne Grant | During this trip, AG
met Elizabeth Carter
, on 16 May 1805. She enjoyed Carter's sense of humour (just the kind, she said, that appealed to her), though she was later surprised (by this time... |
| Friends, Associates | Catherine Fanshawe | CF
's friends included other highly literate middle-class women such as Mary Berry
and Anne Grant
in Edinburgh. (Her friendship with Grant was maintained entirely by correspondence—she and her sisters hoped to visit Edinburgh in... |
| Health | Susan Ferrier | She also began to lose her eyesight in middle age. She mentioned this affliction in 1830, and Joanna Baillie
noted in June 1831 that she was in living in a darkened state because of her... |
| Health | Ann Radcliffe | Rictor Norton believes that AR
may have suffered a nervous breakdown in 1803, after finishing Gaston de Blondeville, and another in late 1812, after the publishing of Anna Seward
's letters alleging that she... |
| Health | Eliza Parsons | Splinters of bone were still at that time working their way out through her skin. She believed that the physician John Hunter
(uncle of Joanna Baillie
) saved her life. Parsons, Eliza, and William Windham. Letter to William Windham, 14 May [1794]. http://BL Add M3 37914. |
| Health | Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre | In 1831 the sixty-three-year-old BBBD
had a fall from her horse which was serious enough to be much noticed. Hale, Peter. Noble and Splendid. Scandal, Honour and Duty: The Families of Kimpton Hoo. Apr. 2008, http://www.kimptonvillage.tsohost.co.uk/Groups/History/N%20and%20S%20revd%201.pdf. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Felicia Hemans | The volume takes its epigraphs and historical starting-points from a wide range of sources, including major male Romantics—Wordsworth
, Byron
, Coleridge
, Goethe
, Schiller
—and lesser-known contemporaries including women—Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Felicia Hemans | Scenes and Hymns of Life includes Prisoners' Evening Service, which imagines the last days of two prisoners awaiting execution during the French Revolution, and affectingly described by Helen Maria Williams
. qtd. in Duquette, Natasha Aleksiuk. Veiled Intent: Dissenting Women’s Approach to Biblical Interpretation. Pickwick Publications, 2016. 167n3 |
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