Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
In 1827 Joanna Baillie
had heard about a proposed US edition, by subscription, of AG
's poems. She thought the money raised would be transmitted to Grant with a generosity which she thought typically American...
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...
Performance of text
Jane Porter
When the curtain rose Kean
(possibly drunk) appeared to have lost his memory, and his power of action.—The other Performers became disconcerted in their parts . . . the whole became a chaos of uproar...
Performance of text
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
An epilogue she wrote for Joanna Baillie
's tragedy De Montfort was spoken by Sarah Siddons
when the play opened at Drury Lane Theatre
, London, on 29 April 1800.
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins.
331
The duchess said...
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...
Occupation
Anne Damer
AD
appeared in private theatricals first at her brother-in-law the Duke of Richmond
's, and later at Strawberry Hill.
Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press.
97
In November 1800 she delivered Joanna Baillie
's Epilogue to the Theatrical Representation at...
Literary responses
Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre
Joanna Baillie
, while she liked the Burns imitations as poetry, observed that the Scots idiom was not quite right.
Barbarina Charlotte, Lady Grey,. A Family Chronicle. Editor Lyster, Gertrude, John Murray.
39
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
Susan Ferrier
Again SF
met with success on balance. The Athenæum, however, naming Miss Ferriar as author, stated that the success of Marriage, backed by the good-natured commendation of Sir Walter Scott
, induced the...
Literary responses
Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre
Joanna Baillie
thought the dialogue here very clever and natural.
Barbarina Charlotte, Lady Grey,. A Family Chronicle. Editor Lyster, Gertrude, John Murray.
152
Literary responses
Elizabeth Ham
Joanna Baillie
approved the title poem, but apparently for the sake of the dedicatee. Whoever the Author may be I wish the work success with all my heart.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
1: 203
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...
