Carhart, Margaret S. The Life and Work of Joanna Baillie. Archon Books.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Joanna Baillie | Through her friendship with Mary Berry
, JB
met Germaine de Staël
. Carhart, Margaret S. The Life and Work of Joanna Baillie. Archon Books. 45 |
Textual Production | Joanna Baillie | JB
sent her friend Mary Berry
a prologue for Fashionable Friends, Berry's play produced at Drury Lane
by Anne Damer
in 1802; she also wrote an epilogue for it. Baillie, Joanna. “Editorial Materials”. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie, edited by Judith Bailey Slagle, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, pp. ix - xiv, 1. 2n7, 3 Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 1: 153n2 |
Textual Production | Joanna Baillie | JB
wrote for a friend a manuscript Recollections Written at the Request of Miss Berry; the manuscript remains in the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons
. Baillie, Joanna. “Introduction”. The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851, edited by Jennifer Breen, Manchester University Press, pp. 1-25. 5 and n17 |
Friends, Associates | Joanna Baillie | Over the course of her long life JB
made dozens of well-loved friends, many of them either professional writers like herself or else writing amateurs. They included Lucy Aikin
, Mary Berry
, Eliza Fletcher |
Textual Production | Joanna Baillie | She told Mary Berry
that she hoped she would not give offence, since she wrote with humble boldness, regarding God & not man. Duquette, Natasha Aleksiuk. Veiled Intent: Dissenting Women’s Approach to Biblical Interpretation. Pickwick Publications. 166 |
Literary responses | Joanna Baillie | The Critical Review assumed the author was male. It thought the versification monotonous but warmly praised both preface and plays. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 24 (1798): 1-22 |
Reception | Joanna Baillie | Mary Berry
took the lead in promoting the volume. Baillie, Joanna. “Editorial Materials”. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie, edited by Judith Bailey Slagle, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, pp. ix - xiv, 1. 11 |
Textual Production | Joanna Baillie | Mary Berry
and Anne Damer
both offered comments and revisions four years before this play was published. Lady Louisa Stuart
did the same (through Walter Scott) in 1809. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 1: 158-9, 244 Slagle, editor of JB |
Friends, Associates | Lady Eleanor Butler | Among their many visitors (apart from the local gentry, with whom they duly established links), close friends included Anna Seward
, Henrietta Maria Bowdler
(who wrote mock-flirtatiously of LEB
as her veillard [sic] or old... |
Friends, Associates | Maria Callcott | In Richmond and elsewhere MC
met emigrés fleeing the French Revolution. She also met a number of women who wrote: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, Mary
and Agnes Berry
, and Anne Damer
. In... |
Textual Features | Lydia Maria Child | LMC
's first four subjects were all known for their writings and for their resistance to tyrannical authority, either political or religious, but she is more interested here in what she alleges to have been... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Camilla Crosland | CC
's mother was born Sarah Wright
. She was descended from the Berry family (that of woman of letters Mary Berry
and her sister Agnes
). When her husband died she began running a... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Damer | Mary Berry
(whose social and financial position was precarious) wrote to AD
in a panic to enjoin caution in face of an apparent public charge that they were lovers. Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press. 104, 105 |
Travel | Anne Damer | In the first winter of her widowhood AD
went abroad to study art. Later she escaped newspaper harrassment by travelling to Italy: Rome and Florence (where she met Walpole's friend Horace Mann
). This voyage... |
Cultural formation | Anne Damer | Literary historian Andrew Elfenbein
argues that these attacks formed part of a general assault on the morals of the aristocracy. AD
stepped up her artistic activities during the next decade, and this rendered her liable... |
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