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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
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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 ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 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 |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Margaret Holford | Joanna Baillie
, to whom the author sent the volume, liked it on the first reading, and still better on the second. She found the title poem truly beautiful, full of striking & pleasing, melancholy... |
| Literary responses | Eliza Fletcher | She received letters of praise and congratulation on this publication from a number of distinguished pens. Anne Grant
wrote characteristically that they far exceeded my expectations. She had expected exalted moral feeling, purity of sentiment... |
| 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. 1: 471 |
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