Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
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Textual Production | Joanna Baillie | Mary Berry
and Anne Damer
both offered comments and revisions four years before this play was published. Lady Louisa Stuart
did the same (through Walter Scott) in 1809. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 1: 158-9, 244 Slagle, editor of JB |
Textual Features | Catherine Fanshawe | |
Textual Features | Lydia Maria Child | LMC
's first four subjects were all known for their writings and for their resistance to tyrannical authority, either political or religious, but she is more interested here in what she alleges to have been... |
Textual Features | Lady Rachel Russell | Mary Berry
mentions a sort of review of her life written by LRR
in old age, lamenting her lack of fervour in religious belief and particularly her inability to arrive at a perfect state of... |
Residence | Mary Somerville | MS
and her family took up residence for the season at 6 Curzon Street, London, next to their friends Mary
and Agnes Berry
. Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff. 51, 205n119 |
Reception | Hannah More | Again this work generated both a flood of praise (much of it in letters, some coming from religious leaders or from royalty) and a storm of criticism and abuse. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 120 |
Reception | Joanna Baillie | Mary Berry
took the lead in promoting the volume. Baillie, Joanna. “Editorial Materials”. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie, edited by Judith Bailey Slagle, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, pp. ix - xiv, 1. 11 |
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. 97 |
Literary responses | Lady Rachel Russell | As love-letters, they made a great and immediate impression on their readers. Yet later this year Mary Russell Mitford
wrote of LRR
with dislike. Mitford found her heavy, preachy, and prosy. As a writer, she... |
Literary responses | Catherine Fanshawe | CF
's immediately posthumous reputation rested, like her writings themselves, on oral tradition. She had the admiration of William Cowper
and Walter Scott
, as well as Joanna Baillie
, Anne Grant
, and Mary Berry |
Literary responses | Joanna Baillie | The Critical Review assumed the author was male. It thought the versification monotonous but warmly praised both preface and plays. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 24 (1798): 1-22 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hannah More | More lays her heaviest emphasis on the need for observing propriety. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 195 Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 117 |
Health | Amelia Opie | By the time of the Great Exhibition AO
was confined to a wheelchair. She did not, however, allow this to damp her spirits, but is said to have proposed a race with Mary Berry
... |
Friends, Associates | Lady Eleanor Butler | Among their many visitors (apart from the local gentry, with whom they duly established links), close friends included Anna Seward
, Henrietta Maria Bowdler
(who wrote mock-flirtatiously of LEB
as her veillard [sic] or old... |
Friends, Associates | Maria Callcott | In Richmond and elsewhere MC
met emigrés fleeing the French Revolution. She also met a number of women who wrote: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, Mary
and Agnes Berry
, and Anne Damer
. In... |
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