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.
Engraving of Joanna Baillie, circa 1800, seated against a draped background. Her white headscarf contrasts with the dark background.

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Literary responses Lady Caroline Lamb
When Glenarvon first appeared, said Lady Caroline, William Lamb admired it so much that it was instrumental in bringing the separated couple back together.
Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
2: 202
Joanna Baillie discerned its author's ability, but added, Her...
Literary responses Camilla Crosland
CC enjoyed moderate success during her life. Her writings earned her a modest income (in the 1840s it was about fifty pounds a year) and the critics were generally complimentary.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
A review in the Morning...
Literary responses Frances Burney
The Memoirsdid not win critical acclaim,
Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
378
though Joanna Baillie and her sister, who had known many of the people depicted in the memoirs, enjoyed them immensely, especially FB 's juvenile letters. Baillie, who...
Occupation Catherine Hutton
As well as collecting illustrations of costume, CH was an early collector of autographs. (She began both these collections at a young age, but presumably had to start again from scratch after her losses in...
Occupation Anne Damer
AD appeared in private theatricals first at her brother-in-law the Duke of Richmond 's, and later at Strawberry Hill.
Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press, 1999.
97
In November 1800 she delivered Joanna Baillie 's Epilogue to the Theatrical Representation at...
Performance of text Jane Porter
When the curtain rose Kean (possibly drunk) appeared to have lost his memory, and his power of action.—The other Performers became disconcerted in their parts . . . the whole became a chaos of uproar...
Performance of text Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire
An epilogue she wrote for Joanna Baillie 's tragedy De Montfort was spoken by Sarah Siddons when the play opened at Drury Lane Theatre , London, on 29 April 1800.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998.
331
The duchess said...
Publishing Dorothea Primrose Campbell
As payment Campbell received twenty copies of the novel. She offered one to Joanna Baillie , who replied that since she and her sister had already read it, it might be better for Campbell to...
Publishing Caroline Scott
Another edition of A Marriage in High Life appeared in 1836, besides a Philadelphia edition of 1833, and German and French translations (of which the latter was misascribed to Joanna Baillie ).
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Publishing Anne Grant
Among her 3,000 subscribers were Joanna Baillie , Felicia Hemans , Robert Southey , William Wordsworth , Lady Bessborough , her sister Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , the minor poet Lady Dick , Elizabeth Hamilton
Publishing Anne Grant
In 1827 Joanna Baillie had heard about a proposed US edition, by subscription, of AG 's poems. She thought the money raised would be transmitted to Grant with a generosity which she thought typically American...
Publishing Margaret Holford
The poem was reprinted by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown in 1810. In 1821 the author was making enquiries of Longman through Joanna Baillie as to how many copies remained of this edition and...
Publishing Helen Maria Williams
The Poems were in two volumes, with HMW 's name in full, published by Rivington and Marshall , with an engraved frontispiece drawn by Maria Cosway . Subscribers included the Prince of Wales (whose name...
Publishing Maria Edgeworth
ME intended her fiction to serve the same broadly didactic purpose, adapted to each rank of society and period of life, as did the directly educational writings in which she collaborated with her father.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
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Publishing Helena Wells
She published this with Longman , signing her preface Helena Wells Whitford, though the title-page says only by the Author of the Step-Mother. Subscribers included Joanna Baillie and Anne Hunter . The title-page...

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