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.
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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Ann Radcliffe
AR
was much upset when on the first, anonymous appearance of Joanna Baillie
's Plays on the Passions she was suspected of being the author: especially when she later learned that Anna Seward
, for...
In the same year, 1894, AMFR
contributed critical introductions to selections by Felicia Hemans
and Joanna Baillie
in The English Poets, edited by Humphry Ward
(husband of the well-known novelist
).
Robinson, A. Mary F. et al. “Critical Introductions”. The English Poets, edited by Thomas Humphry Ward, New Edition, Macmillian, pp. 4: 221 -34.
4: ix-x
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Mary Russell Mitford
It seems that MRM
first caught the ambition of being a writer from her teacher Frances Arabella Rowden
. Her early letters about her own poetry are also largely concerned with Rowden's Pleasures of Friendship...
