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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Textual Production | Anne Marsh | AM
wrote for her own amusement from an early age. Letters exchanged in November 1813 and the succeeding months, when she was twenty-two, by women of the Wedgwood family, discuss and warmly praise her play... |
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 |
Literary responses | Lady Caroline Lamb | When Glenarvon first appeared, said Lady Caroline, William Lamb
admired it so much that it was instrumental in bringing the separated couple back together. Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press. 2: 202 |
Literary responses | Fanny Kemble | In its review the Athenæum placed Kemble in the ranks with Joanna Baillie
and Mary Russell Mitford
, though her published original contributions in this form are only three—her school-girl essay which became the play... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Kelty | She goes on to quote Johnson
, Cowper
, Emerson
(with whose thought she engages in some detail), and many other canonical names. Among women she quotes from Mary Bosanquet Fletcher
(a passage about communion... |
Dedications | Mary Ann Kelty | |
Textual Features | Christian Isobel Johnstone | The title-page of the first quotes from Francis Bacon
(Knowledge is Power) and from the mother of Sir William Jones
(Read and you will know). Johnstone, Christian Isobel. Diversions of Hollycot. Oliver and Boyd. title-page |
Textual Production | Maria Jane Jewsbury | MJJ
took occasion, in a review of Joanna Baillie
for the Athenæum, to praise not only Baillie but also Ann Radcliffe
, Elizabeth Inchbald
, and Mary Wollstonecraft
. Wilkes, Joanne. “’Only the broken music’? The Critical Writings of Maria Jane Jewsbury”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 7 , No. 1, pp. 105-18. 115 |
Friends, Associates | Maria Jane Jewsbury | |
Travel | Maria Jane Jewsbury | In 1830 she spent part of the summer in London. Clarke, Norma. Ambitious Heights. Routledge. 155 Clarke, Norma. Ambitious Heights. Routledge. 29 Espinasse, Francis, and Francis Espinasse. “Maria Jane Jewsbury”. Lancashire Worthies: Second Series, Simpkin, Marshall; John Heywood, pp. 323-39. 328 Fryckstedt, Monica Correa. “The Hidden Rill: The Life and Career of Maria Jane Jewsbury, I”. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Vol. 66 , No. 2, The Library, pp. 177-03. 198 |
Textual Features | Maria Jane Jewsbury | MJJ
used the Athenæum to express her opinions on women's writing. A review of Anna Maria Hall
's Sketches of Irish Character criticizes the author's erroneous ambition Athenæum. J. Lection. 182 (1831): 262 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maria Jane Jewsbury | Having dismissed the ostensible subject of her review, Baillie
's The Nature and Dignity of Christ, as proving that controversial theology is better left alone by ladies, Wilkes, Joanne. “’Only the broken music’? The Critical Writings of Maria Jane Jewsbury”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 7 , No. 1, pp. 105-18. 115 |
Friends, Associates | Anna Brownell Jameson | Lady Byron subsequently introduced Jameson to Joanna Baillie
, and Jameson in turn introduced Lady Byron to her friend Harriet Martineau
. Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press. 91 |
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... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Inchbald | EI
did not choose the plays herself. Shakespeare fills the first five volumes, apart from one piece by Ben Jonson
, and five of her own plays fill volume 20. The eighteenth century is better... |
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