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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Mary Howitt | The work was dedicated to Caroline Bowles
, with whom MH
's sometimes shaky friendship was currently flourishing. Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press, 1952. 77 |
| Textual Production | Henrietta Maria Bowdler | |
| Textual Production | Ann Radcliffe | AR
was much upset when on the first, anonymous appearance of Joanna Baillie
's Plays on the Passions she was suspected of being the author: especially when she later learned that Anna Seward
, for... |
| Textual Production | Anne Hunter | Joanna Baillie
reported that AH
(whom she wrongly thought to be seventy-three) was still writing with as much elegance & ease as she ever did. Baillie particularly liked her translation from Italian of a poem... |
| Textual Production | Anne Marsh | AM
wrote for her own amusement from an early age. Letters exchanged in November 1813 and the succeeding months, when she was twenty-two, by women of the Wedgwood family, discuss and warmly praise her play... |
| Textual Production | Margaret Holford | After her marriage Margaret Hodson published through John Murray
in 1827 a volume of hymns designed especially for those facing death, written or else collected by herself. In September that year Joanna Baillie
thanked her... |
| Textual Production | Margaret Holford | It appears that by late August 1824 Holford had written a tragedy, as yet unperformed and unpublished, from which she wished Thomas Campbell
to make extracts for appearing in the New Monthly Magazine, of... |
| Textual Production | Mary Berry | Few letters survive among those which both sisters wrote regularly to Horace Walpole
during the late 1780s; his to them appear as volumes 11 and 12 in the Yale edition of his correspondence. Mary also... |
| Textual Production | Mary Russell Mitford | It seems that MRM
first caught the ambition of being a writer from her teacher Frances Arabella Rowden
. Her early letters about her own poetry are also largely concerned with Rowden's Pleasures of Friendship... |
| Textual Production | Catherine Fanshawe | The letters that CF
sent to Anne Grant
are not extant, but Grant's side of the correspondence leaves no doubt that the two were in constant dialogue about new books they had read, and their... |
| Textual Production | Maria Jane Jewsbury | MJJ
took occasion, in a review of Joanna Baillie
for the Athenæum, to praise not only Baillie but also Ann Radcliffe
, Elizabeth Inchbald
, and Mary Wollstonecraft
. Wilkes, Joanne. “’Only the broken music’? The Critical Writings of Maria Jane Jewsbury”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 7 , No. 1, 2000, pp. 105-18. 115 |
| Textual Production | Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre | Dacre wrote the epilogue too, which was delivered by her daughter in character as the heroine. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. N13508 (6 February 1828): 3 |
| Textual Production | Mary Berry | Anne Damer
had been encouraging MB
to keep working on her play as early as December 1793. In December 1795 it was complete enough for her to show it to a friend, the mathematician John Playfair |
| Textual Production | Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre | In March 1819 Joanna Baillie
had described her as Still hankering after the Drama, but fearful & diffident of herself. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols. 2: 1191 |
| Textual Production | Mary Berry | She had perhaps begun to form this intention as early as 7 May 1797, when she noted her desire to preserve her memories of these turbulent and alarming times. Berry, Mary. Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry. Editor Lewis, Lady Theresa, Longmans, Green, 1865, 3 vols. 2: 22 |
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