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.

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Wealth and Poverty Mary Russell Mitford
The prime movers of this achievement were Henry F. Chorley (who later edited her letters) and the Rev. William Harness ; the name of Queen Victoria headed the list of subscribers.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
116: 195
Pigrome, Stella. “Mary Russell Mitford”. The Charles Lamb Bulletin, Vol.
66
, Charles Lamb Society, pp. 53-62.
54
It...
Travel Maria Jane Jewsbury
In 1830 she spent part of the summer in London.
Clarke, Norma. Ambitious Heights. Routledge.
155
While staying with Joanna Baillie in Hampstead, she also visited Sara and Henry Coleridge .
Clarke, Norma. Ambitious Heights. Routledge.
29
Espinasse, Francis, and Francis Espinasse. “Maria Jane Jewsbury”. Lancashire Worthies: Second Series, Simpkin, Marshall; John Heywood, pp. 323-39.
328
Fryckstedt, Monica Correa. “The Hidden Rill: The Life and Career of Maria Jane Jewsbury, I”. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Vol.
66
, No. 2, The Library, pp. 177-03.
198
Travel Augusta Ada Byron
Ada visited, among other places, Genoa, Turin, Lake Geneva, Mont Blanc, and Stuttgart. She wrote letters describing the Alps to her mother's close friend the writer Joanna Baillie .
Byron, Augusta Ada. Ada, The Enchantress of Numbers. Editor Toole, Betty A., Strawberry Press.
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Woolley, Benjamin. The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason and Byron’s Daughter. Macmillan.
110-11
Travel Catherine Fanshawe
On 23 August 1832, CF and her sister(s) arrived at a Hampstead house next door to that of Joanna Baillie , but this seems to have been just a visit.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
1: 222-3
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Alice Meynell
Many of the essays reprinted here focus on women writers who were, to put it mildly, little known to the public in the 1940s. These included: Anna Seward and Joanna Baillie , as well as...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Georgiana Chatterton
GC 's so-called diary describes much of its material retrospectively. It uses many anecdotes of society as retailed by her mother, her aunt, or others whose memories went back further than her own, as well...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Clara Balfour
In her general overview of the history of English literature during these centuries, she focuses especially on English poets because as she says, great poets not only give form, power and beauty to a nation's...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Eunice Guthrie Murray
Her subjects here include such comparatively well-known authors as Joanna Baillie , Anne Grant , and Margaret Oliphant , and also the almost unknown diarist and novelist Margaret Calderwood .
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sarah Tytler
The book is prefaced by a glossary which informs the reader that Edinburgh is nicknamed Auld Reekie, that to gowl is to weep noisily, to rug and rive is to carry off by violence...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Maria Jane Jewsbury
Having dismissed the ostensible subject of her review, Baillie 's The Nature and Dignity of Christ, as proving that controversial theology is better left alone by ladies,
Wilkes, Joanne. “’Only the broken music’? The Critical Writings of Maria Jane Jewsbury”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 1, pp. 105-18.
115
MJJ defends an earlier generation of...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Bannerman
The contents included odes, sonnets (including one sequence from Petrarch and another based on Goethe 's Werther, in which she speaks as the male lover of a woman, with notes relating her poems to...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Grant
She likes her reading to be strenuous: she recommends Jane Austen 's Mansfield Park as light reading,
Grant, Anne. Memoir and Correspondence of Mrs. Grant of Laggan. Editor Grant, John Peter, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.
2: 68
and says she would be happy to give a whole summer to Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins 's The...
Textual Production Mary Carpenter
Tuckerman (1778 - 20 April 1840) was a Unitarian minister whose work among Boston's poorest earned him the title of the father of American social work. A lifelong friend of William Ellery Channing , he...
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 Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre
BBBD was a conscientious and entertaining letter-writer with a large circle of correspondents. The Plymouth and West Devon Record Office holds a collection of her correspondence from the 1840s with Frances Parker, Countess of Morley

Timeline

1749: Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock published Der...

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1749

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock published Der Messias, a religiouspoem in three cantos.

9 September 1803: The first number appeared of the Annual Review,...

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9 September 1803

The first number appeared of the Annual Review, a Dissenting periodical run by Lucy Aikin 's brother Arthur Aikin , which had been planned in 1802.

Early 1818: William Hazlitt opened On the Living Poets,...

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Early 1818

William Hazlitt opened On the Living Poets, the last of his Lectures on the English Poets, with a statement on gender issues.

By 19 December 1831: Cholera was sufficiently widespread in London...

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By 19 December 1831

Cholera was sufficiently widespread in London for Joanna Baillie to comment on the general panic and uneasiness.

13 February 1832: Cholera was registered as epidemic in London...

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13 February 1832

Cholera was registered as epidemic in London (a couple of months after Joanna Baillie recorded anxiety about it). This was the first of four major outbreaks in nineteenth-century Britain.

1835: Caroline Herschel and Mary Somerville were...

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1835

Caroline Herschel and Mary Somerville were awarded honorary memberships by the Royal Astronomical Society .

20 November 1837: Joanna Baillie wrote a heartfelt complaint...

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20 November 1837

Joanna Baillie wrote a heartfelt complaint (which she feared might sound envious & spiteful) about the effects of the recent fashion for expensive albums, or annuals or gift books.

17 February 1847: The Whittington Club (named after the poor...

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17 February 1847

The Whittington Club (named after the poor boy who became Lord Mayor of London) held its first meeting. Unlike traditional gentlemen's clubs, it welcomed women and lower-middle-class men.

1868: Emily Taylor (1795-18), who is remembered...

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1868

Emily Taylor (1795-18), who is remembered for books connected with her school-teaching career, published Memories of some Contemporary Poets, with Selections from their Writings, with a good representation of women among her subjects (from...

April 1879: James Murray—editor since 1 March of what...

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April 1879

James Murray —editor since 1 March of what was to become the Oxford English Dictionary—issued an Appeal for readers to supply illustrative quotations.

1994: Juggernaut was set up as a small New York...

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1994

Juggernaut was set up as a small New York theatre company; in 2001 it decided to publicise the work of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women playwrights.

Texts

Baillie, Joanna, editor. A Collection of Poems, Chiefly Manuscript, and from Living Authors. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823.
Baillie, Joanna. Ahalya Baee. Printed for private circulation, Spottiswoode and Shaw, 1849.
Baillie, Joanna. Constantine Paleologus. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805.
Baillie, Joanna. De Monfort. T. Caddell and W. Davies, 1798.
Baillie, Joanna. Dramas. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1836.
Baillie, Joanna. “Editorial Materials”. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie, edited by Judith Bailey Slagle, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, pp. ix - xiv, 1.
Baillie, Joanna. Epilogue to the Theatrical Representation at Strawberry-Hill. 1800.
Baillie, Joanna. Fugitive Verses. E. Moxon, 1840.
Baillie, Joanna. Further Letters. Editor McLean, Thomas, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2010.
Baillie, Joanna. Henriquez. M. Carey, 1836.
Baillie, Joanna. “Introduction”. Poems, 1790, edited by Jonathan Wordsworth, Woodstock, 1994.
Baillie, Joanna. “Introduction”. The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851, edited by Jennifer Breen, Manchester University Press, 1999, pp. 1-25.
Baillie, Joanna. Lines on the Death of Sir Walter Scott. 1832.
Baillie, Joanna. Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821.
Baillie, Joanna. Miscellaneous Plays. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; A. Constable, 1804.
Baillie, Joanna. Plays on the Passions. T. Caddell and W. Davies, 1812.
Baillie, Joanna. Plays on the Passions. Editor Duthie, Peter, Broadview, 2001.
Baillie, Joanna. Poems, 1790. J. Johnson, 1790.
Baillie, Joanna, and George Thomson. “Songs”. Thomson’s Collection of the Songs of Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Bart. and other Eminent Lyric Poets, Preston, 1824, p. various pages.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999.
Baillie, Joanna. The Complete Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie. Carey and Lea, 1832.
Baillie, Joanna. The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851.
Baillie, Joanna. The Election. M. Carey, 1811.
Baillie, Joanna. The Family Legend. John Ballantyne; Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1810.
Baillie, Joanna. The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851. Editor Breen, Jennifer, Manchester University Press, 1999.