Agnes Baillie

Standard Name: Baillie, Agnes

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Joanna Baillie
JB 's sister, Agnes , two years her elder, lived with her all her life and survived her by ten years, to die at the age of almost a hundred.
Baillie, Joanna. The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851. Breen, JenniferEditor , Manchester University Press, 1999.
176
Friends, Associates Maria Edgeworth
With Joanna Baillie she formed a strong and enduring friendship; they corresponded until 1848. Edgeworth visited Baillie and her sister Agnes at their home in October 1818 and again in January 1822; she and her...
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 ...
Literary responses Mary Brunton
This novel was reviewed at the beginning of the next year.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
5th ser. 1 (1815): 84
When the Baillie sisters re-read it aloud in 1840, Joanna found the story well imagined and the copious authorial...
Literary responses Margaret Holford
Baillie read this translation aloud to her sister , and found it a very interesting work, simple, clear & the characters forcibly & impartially drawn, easier to follow than a longer history. Even as non-Spanish-speakers...
Reception Margaret Holford
Agnes Baillie had recently re-read the novel in summer 1840, but her sister did not record her opinion at that date.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Slagle, Judith BaileyEditor , Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999.
2: 690
Residence Joanna Baillie
JB and her mother and sister moved to London to join her brother Matthew .
Baillie, Joanna. “Introduction”. The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851, edited by Jennifer Breen, Manchester University Press, 1999, pp. 1 - 25.
3
Baillie, Joanna. “Editorial Materials”. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie, edited by Judith Bailey Slagle, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, pp. ix - xiv, 1.
25
Textual Features Joanna Baillie
Its contents include poems of social concern like School Rhymes for Negro Children (where the children are portrayed as effervescently happy, attending school in a tropical setting) and poems of social affection, like Lines to...
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...
Travel Joanna Baillie
JB and her mother and sister travelled for some months in Wales.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Slagle, Judith BaileyEditor , Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999.
1: 194-5
Travel Joanna Baillie
JB , with her mother and sister , left England for a tour of the Continent, including the battlefield of Waterloo, the Rhine, the Alps, Geneva, and Paris.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Slagle, Judith BaileyEditor , Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999.
1: 354

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