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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Textual Features Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB draws on Hannah More , her niece Lucy Aikin , and (anonymously) Joanna Baillie . She is even-handed in that she includes six excerpts from James Fordyce 's Sermons to Young Women, a...
Textual Features Catherine Carswell
Open the Door! demonstrates the imprint of Glasgow, music, and art on CC 's literary imagination. The novel's heroine, Joanna Bannerman, is a young girl of the late 1800s trying to escape the narrow...
Textual Features Elizabeth Inchbald
EI did not choose the plays herself. Shakespeare fills the first five volumes, apart from one piece by Ben Jonson , and five of her own plays fill volume 20. The eighteenth century is better...
Textual Features Mary Russell Mitford
MRM 's letters regularly indulge in analysis of books. She comments on works by both men and women, in English and French, and her opinions shift a good deal with age. She reacted with horror...
Textual Features Maria Jane Jewsbury
MJJ used the Athenæum to express her opinions on women's writing. A review of Anna Maria Hall 's Sketches of Irish Character criticizes the author's erroneous ambition
Athenæum. J. Lection.
182 (1831): 262
in attempting to portray villains...
Textual Features Christian Isobel Johnstone
The title-page of the first quotes from Francis Bacon (Knowledge is Power) and from the mother of Sir William Jones (Read and you will know).
Johnstone, Christian Isobel. Diversions of Hollycot. Oliver and Boyd.
title-page
It portrays the widow Mrs...
Textual Features Margaret Holford
Joanna Baillie was moved by these verses and judged them to be indeed an affectionate & touching lament for the Beautiful & brave. She liked particularly the sentiment that every stranger who looked on his...
Textual Features Carola Oman
She notes that the writer Anne Grant was the first person known to have applied the wizard title to Scott, though she is unable actually to credit her as its originator.
Oman, Carola. The Wizard of the North. Hodder and Stoughton.
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She mentions Joanna Baillie
Textual Production Catherine Fanshawe
The letters that CF sent to Anne Grant are not extant, but Grant's side of the correspondence leaves no doubt that the two were in constant dialogue about new books they had read, and their...
Textual Production Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre
Dacre wrote the epilogue too, which was delivered by her daughter in character as the heroine.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
N13508 (6 February 1828): 3
She had invited Joanna Baillie and her sister to attend, though the latter was...
Textual Production Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre
In March 1819 Joanna Baillie had described her as Still hankering after the Drama, but fearful & diffident of herself.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
2: 1191
Dacre's prefatory comments play down her ambition and even her skill, but she...
Textual Production Mary Howitt
The work was dedicated to Caroline Bowles , with whom MH 's sometimes shaky friendship was currently flourishing.
Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press.
77
Its year-date comes from the copy in the Osborne Collection at Toronto, and the narrower...
Textual Production Anne Marsh
AM wrote for her own amusement from an early age. Letters exchanged in November 1813 and the succeeding months, when she was twenty-two, by women of the Wedgwood family, discuss and warmly praise her play...
Textual Production Mary Carpenter
Tuckerman (1778 - 20 April 1840) was a Unitarian minister whose work among Boston's poorest earned him the title of the father of American social work. A lifelong friend of William Ellery Channing , he...
Textual Production Henrietta Maria Bowdler
This too was written long before publication: in 1801, HMB said in a preface dated 1819, with the aim of combating the ideas of Godwin and other Jacobins, and the horrors of the French Revolution...

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