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 Production | 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... |
Textual Production | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | BBBD
was a conscientious and entertaining letter-writer with a large circle of correspondents. The Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
holds a collection of her correspondence from the 1840s with Frances Parker, Countess of Morley |
Textual Production | Henrietta Maria Bowdler | |
Textual Production | A. Mary F. Robinson | 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 |
Textual Production | Maria Jane Jewsbury | MJJ
took occasion, in a review of Joanna Baillie
for the Athenæum, to praise not only Baillie but also Ann Radcliffe
, Elizabeth Inchbald
, and Mary Wollstonecraft
. Wilkes, Joanne. “’Only the broken music’? The Critical Writings of Maria Jane Jewsbury”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 7 , No. 1, pp. 105-18. 115 |
Textual Production | 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... |
Textual Production | Margaret Holford | After her marriage Margaret Hodson published through John Murray
in 1827 a volume of hymns designed especially for those facing death, written or else collected by herself. In September that year Joanna Baillie
thanked her... |
Textual Production | Lucy Aikin | LA
memoir of Anna Letitia Barbauld
, in her edition of Barbauld's Works, June 1825, represents a well-planned if largely unsuccessful attempt to establish and preserve Barbauld's reputation after systemic attack by political conservatives... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Clara Balfour | In her general overview of the history of English literature during these centuries, she focuses especially on English poets because as she says, great poets not only give form, power and beauty to a nation's... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eunice Guthrie Murray | Her subjects here include such comparatively well-known authors as Joanna Baillie
, Anne Grant
, and Margaret Oliphant
, and also the almost unknown diarist and novelist Margaret Calderwood
. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sarah Tytler | The book is prefaced by a glossary which informs the reader that Edinburgh is nicknamed Auld Reekie, that to gowl is to weep noisily, to rug and rive is to carry off by violence... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maria Jane Jewsbury | Having dismissed the ostensible subject of her review, Baillie
's The Nature and Dignity of Christ, as proving that controversial theology is better left alone by ladies, Wilkes, Joanne. “’Only the broken music’? The Critical Writings of Maria Jane Jewsbury”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 7 , No. 1, pp. 105-18. 115 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Bannerman | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Grant | She likes her reading to be strenuous: she recommends Jane Austen
's Mansfield Park as light reading, Grant, Anne. Memoir and Correspondence of Mrs. Grant of Laggan. Editor Grant, John Peter, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 2: 68 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Alice Meynell | Many of the essays reprinted here focus on women writers who were, to put it mildly, little known to the public in the 1940s. These included: Anna Seward
and Joanna Baillie
, as well as... |
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