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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Literary responses | Margaret Holford | Walter Scott
never answered when Holford sent him a copy of Wallace for comment, and was apparently scathing about the poem in remarks made privately to Joanna Baillie. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 1: 328 |
Literary responses | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | Joanna Baillie
thought the dialogue here very clever and natural. Barbarina Charlotte, Lady Grey,. A Family Chronicle. Editor Lyster, Gertrude, John Murray. 152 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Ham | Joanna Baillie
approved the title poem, but apparently for the sake of the dedicatee. Whoever the Author may be I wish the work success with all my heart. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 1: 203 |
Literary responses | Margaret Holford | The reception of this second long poem was far less favourable than that of Wallace. The Monthly Review denied it literary merit while granting it some potential literary-historical interest. The poem was, wrote the... |
Literary responses | Henrietta Maria Bowdler | Joanna Baillie
called this novel in parts an interesting story very well told, but found fault with the moral of the lesson, Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 1: 471 |
Literary responses | Margaret Holford | Joanna Baillie
, to whom the author sent the volume, liked it on the first reading, and still better on the second. She found the title poem truly beautiful, full of striking & pleasing, melancholy... |
Literary responses | Eliza Fletcher | She received letters of praise and congratulation on this publication from a number of distinguished pens. Anne Grant
wrote characteristically that they far exceeded my expectations. She had expected exalted moral feeling, purity of sentiment... |
Literary responses | Anna Brownell Jameson | Reviewers noted the fact that it was a woman who had set out on this bold journey. Christian Isobel Johnstone
's review in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine was fairly typical in suggesting that that Winter Studies... |
Literary responses | Mary Brunton | This novel was reviewed at the beginning of the next year. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 5th ser. 1 (1815): 84 |
Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | Its appearance in Blackwood's was accompanied by critic John Wilson
's assertion, Scotland has her Baillie
—Ireland her Tighe
—England her Hemans. Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction”. Records of Woman, edited by Paula R. Feldman, University Press of Kentucky, p. xi - xxxiii. xvi Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction”. Records of Woman, edited by Paula R. Feldman, University Press of Kentucky, p. xi - xxxiii. xvi |
Literary responses | Anna Seward | Scott
confided to Joanna Baillie
after AS
's death that he had developed a most unsentimental horror for her sentimental letters while he was receiving them. Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press. 252 |
Literary responses | Margaret Holford | Baillie
read this translation aloud to her sister
, and found it a very interesting work, simple, clear & the characters forcibly & impartially drawn, easier to follow than a longer history. Even as non-Spanish-speakers... |
Literary responses | Catherine Gore | These poems were shown to Joanna Baillie
, who admired them. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
Literary responses | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
's plays were admired by Maria Edgeworth
, Joanna Baillie
, and Felicia Hemans
, though John Genest
(in Some Account of the English Stage, from the Restoration in 1660 to 1830, 1832), judged them dull. |
Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | Appreciation of FH
was slowly growing. Following on the positive responses from Scott
and Byron
, in October 1820John Taylor Coleridge
in the influential Quarterly Review (published by John Murray
, her own publisher)... |
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