Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
Ann was sorry that Joanna Baillie
had left Colchester before theTaylors arrived there; but her intense, but humble, yearnings to encounter a live author
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, http://U of A, HSS Ruth N .
MB
's earliest close friend in Edinburgh was a Mrs Izett. When she dedicated her first book to Joanna Baillie
, this began a friendship between them. She was friendly with Anne Grant
(who was...
By now ME
was a celebrity, and could count on being introduced to the local literati when she travelled. On this visit to London she finally met Etiénne Dumont
, the utilitarian, with whom she...
Friends, Associates
Maria Jane Jewsbury
Although they had been corresponding by letter for some time, this holiday was the first time the two writers met in person. MJJ
was soon accepted into Hemans
' social circle and become friends with...
Friends, Associates
Mary Bryan
MB
approached Sir Walter Scott
on 10 June 1818, seeking the furtherance of her literary career. The extant correspondence spans nine years. His side does not survive, and there is no evidence that they ever...
Friends, Associates
Lady Louisa Stuart
LLS
was introduced as a young woman into the Bluestocking circle. Her friendship with the younger Louisa Clinton
produced some attractive letters and that with Frances, Lady Douglas
, produced a remarkable memoir. Lady Douglas's...
Family and Intimate relationships
Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre
Arabella's monument in Kimpton church says she died after a long illness borne with Christian cheeerfulness.
Hale, Peter. Noble and Splendid. Scandal, Honour and Duty: The Families of Kimpton Hoo. http://www.kimptonvillage.tsohost.co.uk/Groups/History/N%20and%20S%20revd%201.pdf.
Joanna Baillie
, seeing BBBD
in June (presumably that year), reported that she could not talk about her...
Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Robinson
MR
's daughter grew up to be a writer, and to publish two books under her own name as well as revising and editing work by MR
. Hers are the gothic, epistolary Minerva
novel...
Education
Elizabeth Gaskell
The school moved to Avonbank House in Stratford upon Avon, a Tudor mansion that had once belonged to a cousin of Shakespeare's, in May 1824. Here Elizabeth learned English, history, geography and music. Women...
Dedications
Mary Ann Kelty
According to a reminiscence from the early half of 1868 by a reader who had been a Cambridge
undergraduate when the book appeared, MAK
first thought of titling her novel after its heroine, but was...
Dedications
Felicia Hemans
FH
's poetic collection Records of Woman was published by Blackwood
with a dedication to Joanna Baillie
.
Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, pp. 1-315.
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British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Dedications
Margaret Holford
She dated her dedication to Joanna Baillie
on 18 May from Hendon Place. Baillie had thanked her for the honour on the 15th. The novel was reviewed in August. French and German translations quickly...
Dedications
Mary Brunton
MB
published at Edinburgh and London her first, anonymous novel, Self-Control; she dated her dedication of it to Joanna Baillie
this month.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
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death
Henrietta Maria Bowdler
Joanna Baillie
told Margaret Hodson (formerly Holford)
that HMB
, who was devotedly nursed by a friend, was kept ignorant by her doctors of what disease she had (oddly, since she knew she had not...
