Joanna Baillie
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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.
- BirthName: Joanna Baillie
- Nickname: Jackwas called Jack by her family as a child.
- Self-constructed: Mrs Joanna BaillieOn 7 February 1814 the fifty-one-year-old the grave title of Mistress,notified her friend that she was taking onbecause she believed that this was appropriate for a single independent woman advanced in years.