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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 ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Catherine Fanshawe | CF
's friends included other highly literate middle-class women such as Mary Berry
and Anne Grant
in Edinburgh. (Her friendship with Grant was maintained entirely by correspondence—she and her sisters hoped to visit Edinburgh in... |
| Friends, Associates | Maria Callcott | Her friends at this period of her life included the diarist and letter-writer Caroline Fox
(with whom her relationship was very close), This is the Hon. Caroline Fox (1767-1845), not to be confused with the... |
| Friends, Associates | Dorothea Primrose Campbell | At some date DPC
visited Joanna Baillie
and offered her a copy of Harley Radington (1821); Baillie's kindly letter in reply to this offer sounds more like a potential patron than like a friend. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 2: 1159 |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Somerville | The Somervilles' circle was not purely a scientific one, and MS
became a friend of the actress Lady Becher
and with the Baillie family. She accompanied Joanna Baillie
to the opening of the latter's play... |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | Having already praised many contemporary women writers in print, EOB
was now able to meet them. The move to London was accomplished principally through the zealous friendship of Miss Sarah Wesley
, who had already... |
| Friends, Associates | Margaret Holford | Foremost among the friends whom she evidently made through her writing was Joanna Baillie
, with whom she opened a correspondence in 1813 which began with reciprocal compliments, and whose books she energetically publicised. Years... |
| Friends, Associates | Sophia Lee | A bluestocking-style brilliant Constellation Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press. 185 Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press. 185 |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | The guests included Joanna Baillie
, Jane Porter
(both mentioned as celebrities) and Eliza Fenwick
. Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence. Editor Sadler, Thomas, Macmillan. 199-200 Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary. |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Grant | Reduced financial circumstances did not prevent EG
from meeting interesting people. In May 1823, when she went to visit an uncle who lived close to Hampstead Heath, she met at dinners the writers Joanna Baillie |
| Friends, Associates | Eliza Fletcher | On her first visit to London, EF
met Joanna Baillie
(with whom her friendship endured for years) and Anna Letitia Barbauld
. Fletcher, Eliza. Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, of Edinburgh. Editor Mary, Lady Richardson, Printed at the offices of C. Thurman for private circulation. 71 |
| Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | HM
's social circle vastly expanded at this time until she knew virtually all the prominent people, particularly the political men, of her day. As she recorded in her Autobiography, however, she refused to... |
| Friends, Associates | Eliza Fletcher | Joanna Baillie
(a well qualified judge) thought few people have so many friends as EF
, and that they all warmly esteemed as well as loving her. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 2: 699 |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Hamilton | While in Wales they visited Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
(the ladies of Llangollen) and in the Lakes they stayed with Elizabeth Smith
and her family. Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy. Memoirs of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. 1: 152-4 Smith, Elizabeth. Fragments, In Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell. 151 |
| Friends, Associates | Georgiana Chatterton | Other celebrities she met as a girl and described in her diary included society hostess Lady Cork
and writers Joanna Baillie
, William Wordsworth
, and Samuel Rogers
. Athenæum. J. Lection. 2640 (1878): 693 Dering, Edward Heneage, and Georgiana Chatterton. Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton. Hurst and Blackett. 34, 76 |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Russell Mitford | Among her earlier literary friends, MRM
wrote with particular warmth of Barbara Hofland
(with whom she stayed in London for the first night of her play Julian), Eleanor Porden
, and Joanna Baillie
... |
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