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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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Frances Burney | The Memoirsdid not win critical acclaim, Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press. 378 |
| Friends, Associates | Sarah Harriet Burney | SHB
's friendships were complicated by her prickliness about her lack of means and status, and her talent for satire. In general she preferred the company of men to women, since she was often thrown... |
| 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. 28 Woolley, Benjamin. The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason and Byron’s Daughter. Macmillan. 110-11 |
| 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 | Maria Callcott | During the early years of her first marriage, between her time in India and in Italy, Maria Graham (later MC
) met Jane Marcet
and the publisher John Murray
. Gotch, Rosamund Brunel. Maria, Lady Callcott, The Creator of ’Little Arthur’. J. Murray. 153-4, 166 |
| 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 |
| Publishing | Dorothea Primrose Campbell | As payment Campbell received twenty copies of the novel. She offered one to Joanna Baillie
, who replied that since she and her sister had already read it, it might be better for Campbell to... |
| Literary responses | Dorothea Primrose Campbell | Joanna Baillie
assured DPC
that she and her sister had been sufficiently impressed to go back and re-read several parts of the novel. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 2: 1159 |
| 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 Features | Catherine Carswell | Open the Door! demonstrates the imprint of Glasgow, music, and art on CC
's literary imagination. The novel's heroine, Joanna Bannerman, is a young girl of the late 1800s trying to escape the narrow... |
| 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 | Georgiana Chatterton | In Italy GC
met one of her closest friends, Helen Selina Blackwood
, Caroline Norton
's elder sister. Dering, Edward Heneage, and Georgiana Chatterton. Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton. Hurst and Blackett. 26 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Dering, Edward Heneage, and Georgiana Chatterton. Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton. Hurst and Blackett. 37 |
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Sara Coleridge | During her first pregnancy, SC
received frequent visits from friends Joanna Baillie
and Maria Jane Jewsbury
. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press. 54-5 |
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