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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Friends, Associates | Sara Coleridge | Among women writers, in addition to Dorothy Wordsworth
, Joanna Baillie
, and Maria Jane Jewsbury
, SC
also knew Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, Anna Jameson
, Elizabeth Rigby
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, and Harriet Martineau |
Friends, Associates | Maria Edgeworth | By now ME
was a celebrity, and could count on being introduced to the local literati when she travelled. On this visit to London she finally met Etiénne Dumont
, the utilitarian, with whom she... |
Friends, Associates | Maria Jane Jewsbury | |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Lady Louisa Stuart | LLS
was introduced as a young woman into the Bluestocking circle. Her friendship with the younger Louisa Clinton
produced some attractive letters and that with Frances, Lady Douglas
, produced a remarkable memoir. Lady Douglas's... |
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... |
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... |
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 | 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 |
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 | Emily Jane Pfeiffer | The poem is framed by a substantial first-person prose narrative about a party of people visiting the Isle of Mull, off the west coast of Scotland. The speaker, evidently EJP
herself, relates how her... |
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