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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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 George Henry Rose (son...
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
Literary responses	Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre	Joanna Baillie thought this the most stage-worthy of her friend's plays, if not the best in other respects. Barbarina Charlotte, Lady Grey,. A Family Chronicle. Editor Lyster, Gertrude, John Murray. 30-1, 39
Literary responses	Anna Mary Howitt	The earlier set of illustrations was warmly praised by Joanna Baillie .
Literary responses	Anna Letitia Barbauld	Though the first review to appear, in the Monthly Repository, expressed admiration (and some anti-war feeling), McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 476 other responses were disapproving, even vitriolic. Many cited the allegedly unpatriotic tendency of the poem in terms...
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
Literary responses	Fanny Kemble	In its review the Athenæum placed Kemble in the ranks with Joanna Baillie and Mary Russell Mitford , though her published original contributions in this form are only three—her school-girl essay which became the play...
Literary responses	Mary Somerville	The text was praised by Maria Edgeworth for hav[ing] enlarged my conception of the sublimity of the universe, beyond any ideas I had ever before been enable to form. Somerville, Mary. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville. Editor Somerville, Martha, Roberts Brothers. 204 After reading the preliminary dissertation,...
Literary responses	Mary Howitt	Among much critical condemnation of The Seven Temptations (and particular harshness from William Jerdan ), Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press. 32 the Athenæum acknowledged that we have gone through the whole volume with sincere pleasure, and judged that MH exhibited...
Literary responses	Catherine Fanshawe	CF 's immediately posthumous reputation rested, like her writings themselves, on oral tradition. She had the admiration of William Cowper and Walter Scott , as well as Joanna Baillie , Anne Grant , and Mary Berry
Literary responses	Lady Caroline Lamb	When Glenarvon first appeared, said Lady Caroline, William Lamb admired it so much that it was instrumental in bringing the separated couple back together. Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press. 2: 202 Joanna Baillie discerned its author's ability, but added, Her...
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. 2: 1159
Literary responses	Margaret Holford	She was very disappointed when Scott never acknowledged this tribute. After Wallace appeared, Joanna Baillie wrote to him reminding him of this lapse in manners and implicitly that it was his own fault that Wallace...
Literary responses	Anne Grant	The pension was granted following the petition of Sir Walter Scott (who had praised her writing at the end of Waverley), Perkins, Pamela. “Anne Grant and the Professionalization of Privacy”. Authorship, Commerce and the Public: Scenes of Writing, 1750-1850, edited by Emma Clery et al., Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 29-43. 32 Francis Jeffrey , Henry Mackenzie , and others. At first AG rejected...

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