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 ascending	Excerpt
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, 1999, 2 vols. 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, 1999, 2 vols. 2: 1159
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, 1937. 153-4, 166 Then or later...
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...
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, 1992. 28 Woolley, Benjamin. The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason and Byron’s Daughter. Macmillan, 1999. 110-11
Literary responses	Frances Burney	The Memoirsdid not win critical acclaim, Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press, 1988. 378 though Joanna Baillie and her sister, who had known many of the people depicted in the memoirs, enjoyed them immensely, especially FB 's juvenile letters. Baillie, who...
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...
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...
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, 2000, 2 vols. 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, 5 series. 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...
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, 1999, 2 vols. 1: 471 which, she observed, did less for the cause of single women...

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