Joanna Baillie

11 September 1762 - 23 February 1851

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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Connections	Author name Sort descending	Excerpt
Literary responses	Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre	Joanna Baillie , while she liked the Burns imitations as poetry, observed that the Scots idiom was not quite right. Barbarina Charlotte, Lady Grey,. A Family Chronicle. Editor Lyster, Gertrude, John Murray. 39
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
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
Friends, Associates	Anna Letitia Barbauld	Joanna Baillie , who lived near the Barbaulds in Hampstead, was one of ALB 's greatest friends. In Barbauld's later years her friends included Samuel Rogers , Madame D'Arblay , Eliza Fletcher (who first visited...
Literary responses	Anna Letitia Barbauld	Though the first review to appear, in the Monthly Repository, expressed admiration (and some anti-war feeling), McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 476 other responses were disapproving, even vitriolic. Many cited the allegedly unpatriotic tendency of the poem in terms...
Textual Features	Anna Letitia Barbauld	ALB draws on Hannah More , her niece Lucy Aikin , and (anonymously) Joanna Baillie . She is even-handed in that she includes six excerpts from James Fordyce 's Sermons to Young Women, a...
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	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.
Anthologization	Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger	Joanna Baillie chose two of EOB 's poems for inclusion in her Collection of Poems, published in early 1823. Baillie, Joanna, editor. A Collection of Poems, Chiefly Manuscript, and from Living Authors. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. Lucy Aikin 's memoir of Benger (as published in one of its subject's works after...
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...
Textual Production	Henrietta Maria Bowdler	This too was written long before publication: in 1801, HMB said in a preface dated 1819, with the aim of combating the ideas of Godwin and other Jacobins, and the horrors of the French Revolution...
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 which, she observed, did less for the cause of single women...
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. 2: 341
Friends, Associates	Mary Brunton	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...
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 When the Baillie sisters re-read it aloud in 1840, Joanna found the story well imagined and the copious authorial...

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