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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 ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Margaret Holford | After her marriage Margaret Hodson published through John Murray
in 1827 a volume of hymns designed especially for those facing death, written or else collected by herself. In September that year Joanna Baillie
thanked her... |
| 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 |
| 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| Margaret Holford | It appears that by late August 1824 Holford had written a tragedy, as yet unperformed and unpublished, from which she wished Thomas Campbell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. |
| Literary responses | Isabel Hill | A notice in The London Magazine favourably compared The Poet's Child to Joanna Baillie
's writing, and described its use of language as simple, in exceedingly pure taste, and at times eminently beautiful. Hill, Benson Earle. “Memoir of the Late Isabel Hill”. The Monthly Magazine, Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper. 182 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Felicia Hemans | Scenes and Hymns of Life includes Prisoners' Evening Service, which imagines the last days of two prisoners awaiting execution during the French Revolution, and affectingly described by Helen Maria Williams
. Duquette, Natasha Aleksiuk. Veiled Intent: Dissenting Women’s Approach to Biblical Interpretation. Pickwick Publications. 167n3 |
| 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. 136 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. |
| Friends, Associates | Felicia Hemans | FH
's literary correspondents and friends included Grace Aguilar
, Joanna Baillie
(whose Beacon she recalled reading when very young), and Mary Howitt
. Elwood, Anne Katharine. Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England, from the Commencement of the Last Century. Henry Colburn. 238 Chorley, Henry Fothergill. Memorials of Mrs. Hemans. Saunders and Otley. I: 145 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Felicia Hemans | She particularly admired Joanna Baillie
's Ethwald and the Chronicles of Froissart
. Germaine de Staël
's Corinne was another major influence on her. She wrote years later: That book, in particular towards its close... |
| Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | Its appearance in Blackwood's was accompanied by critic John Wilson
's assertion, Scotland has her Baillie
—Ireland her Tighe
—England her Hemans. Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction”. Records of Woman, edited by Paula R. Feldman, University Press of Kentucky, p. xi - xxxiii. xvi Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction”. Records of Woman, edited by Paula R. Feldman, University Press of Kentucky, p. xi - xxxiii. xvi |
| Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | Appreciation of FH
was slowly growing. Following on the positive responses from Scott
and Byron
, in October 1820John Taylor Coleridge
in the influential Quarterly Review (published by John Murray
, her own publisher)... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Felicia Hemans | The volume cost nine shillings and sixpence, and when the edition of 1,000 sold out, FH
's share of the profits split with John Murray
was £66. According to recent editors of the text, the... |
| Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | The play's debut was disappointing. It closed after a single night, though it was remounted with greater success in Edinburgh the following April with Harriet Siddons
in a major role (having been recruited at Joanna Baillie |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Felicia Hemans | The volume takes its epigraphs and historical starting-points from a wide range of sources, including major male Romantics—Wordsworth
, Byron
, Coleridge
, Goethe
, Schiller
—and lesser-known contemporaries including women—Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger |
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