Joanna Baillie

11 September 1762 - 23 February 1851

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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Friends, Associates	Sarah Harriet Burney	SHB 's friendships were complicated by her prickliness about her lack of means and status, and her talent for satire. In general she preferred the company of men to women, since she was often thrown...
Friends, Associates	Anne Grant	She became a noted figure in Edinburgh literary and social circles. Among her friends were Lady Charlotte Campbell (later Bury) , Paston, George, and George Paston. “Mrs. Grant of Laggan”. Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century, E. P. Dutton, pp. 237-96. 284 Lord Jeffrey , Sir Walter Scott , Henry Mackenzie , and other literati...
Friends, Associates	Margaret Holford	MH 's friends were said to include Anna Seward . She is not mentioned in Teresa Barnard 's biography of Seward. After her eldest daughter became famous and developed a correspondence with Joanna Baillie ...
Friends, Associates	Anna Letitia Barbauld	Joanna Baillie , who lived near the Barbaulds in Hampstead, was one of ALB 's greatest friends. In Barbauld's later years her friends included Samuel Rogers , Madame D'Arblay , Eliza Fletcher (who first visited...
Friends, Associates	Anne Grant	At about this time her friends included Robert Southey , Joanna Baillie , and Eliza Fletcher . With the last-named her warm and close personal friendship triumphed over their opposing politics (Grant being a Tory...
Friends, Associates	Maria Callcott	During the early years of her first marriage, between her time in India and in Italy, Maria Graham (later MC ) met Jane Marcet and the publisher John Murray . Gotch, Rosamund Brunel. Maria, Lady Callcott, The Creator of ’Little Arthur’. J. Murray. 153-4, 166 Then or later...
Friends, Associates	Helen Maria Williams	That year HMW was introduced by Dr John Moore to Burns , with whom she then corresponded. She met Samuel Rogers (in November 1787), Hester Lynch Piozzi , and Sir Joshua Reynolds . The year...
Family and Intimate relationships	Mary Robinson	MR 's daughter grew up to be a writer, and to publish two books under her own name as well as revising and editing work by MR . Hers are the gothic, epistolary Minerva novel...
Family and Intimate relationships	Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre	Arabella's monument in Kimpton church says she died after a long illness borne with Christian cheeerfulness. Hale, Peter. Noble and Splendid. Scandal, Honour and Duty: The Families of Kimpton Hoo. http://www.kimptonvillage.tsohost.co.uk/Groups/History/N%20and%20S%20revd%201.pdf. Joanna Baillie , seeing BBBD in June (presumably that year), reported that she could not talk about her...
Education	Elizabeth Gaskell	The school moved to Avonbank House in Stratford upon Avon, a Tudor mansion that had once belonged to a cousin of Shakespeare's, in May 1824. Here Elizabeth learned English, history, geography and music. Women...
Dedications	Felicia Hemans	FH 's poetic collection Records of Woman was published by Blackwood with a dedication to Joanna Baillie . Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, pp. 1-315. 136 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Dedications	Margaret Holford	She dated her dedication to Joanna Baillie on 18 May from Hendon Place. Baillie had thanked her for the honour on the 15th. The novel was reviewed in August. French and German translations quickly...
Dedications	Mary Brunton	MB published at Edinburgh and London her first, anonymous novel, Self-Control; she dated her dedication of it to Joanna Baillie this month. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 2: 341
Dedications	Mary Ann Kelty	According to a reminiscence from the early half of 1868 by a reader who had been a Cambridge undergraduate when the book appeared, MAK first thought of titling her novel after its heroine, but was...
death	Henrietta Maria Bowdler	Joanna Baillie told Margaret Hodson (formerly Holford) that HMB , who was devotedly nursed by a friend, was kept ignorant by her doctors of what disease she had (oddly, since she knew she had not...

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