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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Literary responses | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
's plays were admired by Maria Edgeworth
, Joanna Baillie
, and Felicia Hemans
, though John Genest
(in Some Account of the English Stage, from the Restoration in 1660 to 1830, 1832), judged them dull. |
Literary responses | Mary Brunton | This novel was reviewed at the beginning of the next year. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 5th ser. 1 (1815): 84 |
Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | Its appearance in Blackwood's was accompanied by critic John Wilson
's assertion, Scotland has her Baillie
—Ireland her Tighe
—England her Hemans. Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction”. Records of Woman, edited by Paula R. Feldman, University Press of Kentucky, p. xi - xxxiii. xvi Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction”. Records of Woman, edited by Paula R. Feldman, University Press of Kentucky, p. xi - xxxiii. xvi |
Literary responses | Anna Seward | Scott
confided to Joanna Baillie
after AS
's death that he had developed a most unsentimental horror for her sentimental letters while he was receiving them. Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press. 252 |
Literary responses | Margaret Holford | Baillie
read this translation aloud to her sister
, and found it a very interesting work, simple, clear & the characters forcibly & impartially drawn, easier to follow than a longer history. Even as non-Spanish-speakers... |
Literary responses | Catherine Gore | Joanna Baillie
some years later remembered reading The Bond and finding it very striking . . . finely worked up, and beautifully written. Barbarina Charlotte, Lady Grey,. A Family Chronicle. Editor Lyster, Gertrude, John Murray. 146 |
Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | Appreciation of FH
was slowly growing. Following on the positive responses from Scott
and Byron
, in October 1820John Taylor Coleridge
in the influential Quarterly Review (published by John Murray
, her own publisher)... |
Literary responses | Camilla Crosland | CC
enjoyed moderate success during her life. Her writings earned her a modest income (in the 1840s it was about fifty pounds a year) and the critics were generally complimentary. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Literary responses | Frances Burney | The Memoirsdid not win critical acclaim, Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press. 378 |
Literary responses | Mary Tighe | As soon as it was brought to public attention (as the work of a woman who had died tragically young), Psyche attracted a rush of attention. The Quarterly Review accorded Tighe high praise as being... |
Literary responses | Margaret Holford | Baillie
praised the language of Holford's hymns as beautiful if perhaps a little too oriental,and the thoughts just & elevated & appropriate to the awful situation for which they are intended. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 2: 601 |
Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | The play's debut was disappointing. It closed after a single night, though it was remounted with greater success in Edinburgh the following April with Harriet Siddons
in a major role (having been recruited at Joanna Baillie |
Literary responses | Anne Bannerman | After her death AB
was quickly forgotten. Yet literary historian Stuart Curran
has recently noted the influence of her poetry on Dorothea Primrose Campbell
. Critic Adriana Craciun
, writing for the website Scottish Women... |
Literary responses | Catherine Fanshawe | Nearly twenty years after CF
died, Mary Russell Mitford
's Recollections of a Literary Life supplied the first public comment on her; the publication also included four poems by Fanshawe that had previously appeared in... |
Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | Joanna Baillie
found some exquisite things in this volume, written with FH
's own peculiar strain of melancholy tenderness. . . . Aye, woman becomes a most-noble & generous being, painted by her hand! Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 2: 709 |
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