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.
Engraving of Joanna Baillie, circa 1800, seated against a draped background. Her white headscarf contrasts with the dark background.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Occupation Catherine Hutton
As well as collecting illustrations of costume, CH was an early collector of autographs. (She began both these collections at a young age, but presumably had to start again from scratch after her losses in...
Literary responses Anna Mary Howitt
The earlier set of illustrations was warmly praised by Joanna Baillie .
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Howitt
The Seven Temptations, a volume of dramatic verse sketches, builds on Joanna Baillie 's Plays on the Passions.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London.
193
Greenfield, John R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 110. Gale Research.
110: 146
Literary responses Mary Howitt
Among much critical condemnation of The Seven Temptations (and particular harshness from William Jerdan ),
Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press.
32
the Athenæum acknowledged that we have gone through the whole volume with sincere pleasure, and judged that MH exhibited...
Textual Production Mary Howitt
The work was dedicated to Caroline Bowles , with whom MH 's sometimes shaky friendship was currently flourishing.
Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press.
77
Its year-date comes from the copy in the Osborne Collection at Toronto, and the narrower...
Literary responses Mary Howitt
In the year this volume was published Queen Victoria sent one of her ministers, George Henry Byng , a copy of it. Joanna Baillie praised it warmly.
Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press.
111
None of MH 's hymns, however, appears in modern collections.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London.
140-1
Literary responses Margaret Holford
Baillie praised the language of Holford's hymns as beautiful if perhaps a little too oriental,and the thoughts just & elevated & appropriate to the awful situation for which they are intended.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
2: 601
Her...
Textual Production Margaret Holford
It appears that by late August 1824 Holford had written a tragedy, as yet unperformed and unpublished, from which she wished Thomas Campbell to make extracts for appearing in the New Monthly Magazine, of...
Textual Features Margaret Holford
Joanna Baillie was moved by these verses and judged them to be indeed an affectionate & touching lament for the Beautiful & brave. She liked particularly the sentiment that every stranger who looked on his...
Friends, Associates Margaret Holford
MH 's friends were said to include Anna Seward .
She is not mentioned in Teresa Barnard 's biography of Seward.
After her eldest daughter became famous and developed a correspondence with Joanna Baillie ...
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...
Literary responses Margaret Holford
She was very disappointed when Scott never acknowledged this tribute. After Wallace appeared, Joanna Baillie wrote to him reminding him of this lapse in manners and implicitly that it was his own fault that Wallace...
Publishing Margaret Holford
The poem was reprinted by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown in 1810. In 1821 the author was making enquiries of Longman through Joanna Baillie as to how many copies remained of this edition and...
Literary responses Margaret Holford
Walter Scott never answered when Holford sent him a copy of Wallace for comment, and was apparently scathing about the poem in remarks made privately to Joanna Baillie.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
1: 328
Early the next year Baillie
Literary responses Margaret Holford
The reception of this second long poem was far less favourable than that of Wallace. The Monthly Review denied it literary merit while granting it some potential literary-historical interest. The poem was, wrote the...

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