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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 Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Mary Somerville | The Somervilles' circle was not purely a scientific one, and MS
became a friend of the actress Lady Becher
and with the Baillie family. She accompanied Joanna Baillie
to the opening of the latter's play... |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | Having already praised many contemporary women writers in print, EOB
was now able to meet them. The move to London was accomplished principally through the zealous friendship of Miss Sarah Wesley
, who had already... |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | The guests included Joanna Baillie
, Jane Porter
(both mentioned as celebrities) and Eliza Fenwick
. Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence. Editor Sadler, Thomas, Macmillan. 199-200 Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary. |
| Health | Ann Radcliffe | Rictor Norton believes that AR
may have suffered a nervous breakdown in 1803, after finishing Gaston de Blondeville, and another in late 1812, after the publishing of Anna Seward
's letters alleging that she... |
| Health | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | In 1831 the sixty-three-year-old BBBD
had a fall from her horse which was serious enough to be much noticed. Hale, Peter. Noble and Splendid. Scandal, Honour and Duty: The Families of Kimpton Hoo. http://www.kimptonvillage.tsohost.co.uk/Groups/History/N%20and%20S%20revd%201.pdf. |
| Health | Eliza Parsons | Splinters of bone were still at that time working their way out through her skin. She believed that the physician John Hunter
(uncle of Joanna Baillie
) saved her life. Parsons, Eliza. Letter to William Windham, 14 May [1794]. http://BL Add M3 37914. |
| Health | Susan Ferrier | She also began to lose her eyesight in middle age. She mentioned this affliction in 1830, and Joanna Baillie
noted in June 1831 that she was in living in a darkened state because of her... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Grisell Murray | The preface comments that GM
's detailed writing about her mother was instrumental in inspiring Joanna Baillie
's ballad about Grisell Baillie in Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters. Murray, Grisell. Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Right Honourable George Baillie of Jerviswood and of Lady Grisell Baillie. x n1 |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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 |
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