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.
Engraving of Joanna Baillie, circa 1800, seated against a draped background. Her white headscarf contrasts with the dark background.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Anthologization Anna Maria Porter
Her Hymn on the Seasons was included by Joanna Baillie in her Collection of Poems, published in early 1823.
Anthologization Anne Hunter
AH 's work was anthologized in The Chaplet (published at Ipswich in 1805, probably edited by Elizabeth Cobbold ), in A Collection of Poems, Chiefly Manuscript, and from Living Authors, 1823, edited by Joanna Baillie
Anthologization Catherine Fanshawe
Joanna Baillie included four poems by Catherine Fanshawe , anonymously, in A Collection of Poems, Chiefly Manuscript, and from Living Authors, Edited for the Benefit of a Friend.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
1: 420
Anthologization Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
Joanna Baillie chose two of EOB 's poems for inclusion in her Collection of Poems, published in early 1823.
Baillie, Joanna, editor. A Collection of Poems, Chiefly Manuscript, and from Living Authors. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823.
Lucy Aikin 's memoir of Benger (as published in one of its subject's works after...
Anthologization Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre
Joanna Baillie included a poem by BBBD (Away, proud boy) in A Collection of Poems, Chiefly Manuscript, and from Living Authors, 1823.
Baillie, Joanna, editor. A Collection of Poems, Chiefly Manuscript, and from Living Authors. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823.
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...
death Lucy Aikin
Her grave is next to that of her friend Joanna Baillie .
Le Breton, Philip Hemery, and Lucy Aikin. “Memoir”. Memoirs, Miscellanies and Letters, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864.
xxvii-xxviii
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...
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, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 341
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, 1839, 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...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Hunter
The poet and playwright Joanna Baillie , twenty years younger than AH , was her niece by marriage. Hunter's poetry was said to have inspired the first juvenile poem that Baillie wrote, and the younger...
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. Apr. 2008, 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...
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...

Timeline

1749: Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock published Der...

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1749

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock published Der Messias, a religious poem in three cantos.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
1: 429

9 September 1803: The first number appeared of the Annual Review,...

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9 September 1803

The first number appeared of the Annual Review, a Dissenting periodical run by Lucy Aikin 's brother Arthur Aikin , which had been planned in 1802.
White, Daniel E. “The Joineriana: Anna Barbauld, the Aikin Family Circle, and the Dissenting Public Sphere”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 4, 1999, pp. 511-33.
531n25
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
411

Early 1818: William Hazlitt opened On the Living Poets,...

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Early 1818

William Hazlitt opened On the Living Poets, the last of his Lectures on the English Poets, with a statement on gender issues.
Chandler, James. England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism. University of Chicago Press, 1998.
112

By 19 December 1831: Cholera was sufficiently widespread in London...

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By 19 December 1831

Cholera was sufficiently widespread in London for Joanna Baillie to comment on the general panic and uneasiness.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
1: 472

13 February 1832: Cholera was registered as epidemic in London...

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13 February 1832

Cholera was registered as epidemic in London (a couple of months after Joanna Baillie recorded anxiety about it). This was the first of four major outbreaks in nineteenth-century Britain.
Alderman, Geoffrey. Modern Britain 1700-1983: A Domestic History. Croom Helm, 1986.
103-5
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
257, 270, 274
Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
183, 196
Dingwall, Robert et al. An Introduction to the Social History of Nursing. Routledge, 1988.
26

1835: Caroline Herschel and Mary Somerville were...

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1835

Caroline Herschel and Mary Somerville were awarded honorary memberships by the Royal Astronomical Society .
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
112
Alic, Margaret. Hypatia’s Heritage: A History of Women in Science. Women’s Press, 1985.
132
Phillips, Patricia. The Scientific Lady. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1990.
114-16, 137-9, 159-162
Phillips, Patricia. The Scientific Lady. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1990.
161
Phillips, Patricia. The Scientific Lady. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1990.
115

20 November 1837: Joanna Baillie wrote a heartfelt complaint...

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20 November 1837

Joanna Baillie wrote a heartfelt complaint (which she feared might sound envious & spiteful) about the effects of the recent fashion for expensive albums, or annuals or gift books.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
2: 668

17 February 1847: The Whittington Club (named after the poor...

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17 February 1847

The Whittington Club (named after the poor boy who became Lord Mayor of London) held its first meeting. Unlike traditional gentlemen's clubs, it welcomed women and lower-middle-class men.
Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press, 1952.
122

1868: Emily Taylor (1795-18), who is remembered...

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1868

Emily Taylor (1795-18), who is remembered for books connected with her school-teaching career, published Memories of some Contemporary Poets, with Selections from their Writings, with a good representation of women among her subjects (from...

April 1879: James Murray—editor since 1 March of what...

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April 1879

James Murray —editor since 1 March of what was to become the Oxford English Dictionary—issued an Appeal for readers to supply illustrative quotations.
Winchester, Simon. The Meaning of Everything. Oxford University Press, 2003.
93, 107, 109

1994: Juggernaut was set up as a small New York...

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1994

Juggernaut was set up as a small New York theatre company; in 2001 it decided to publicise the work of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women playwrights.
Goreau, Angeline. “These Women Seduced By Wit”. New York Times, 9 Mar. 2003, p. Section 2: 7.

Texts

Baillie, Joanna, editor. A Collection of Poems, Chiefly Manuscript, and from Living Authors. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823.
Baillie, Joanna. Ahalya Baee. Printed for private circulation, Spottiswoode and Shaw, 1849.
Baillie, Joanna. Constantine Paleologus. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805.
Baillie, Joanna. De Monfort. T. Caddell and W. Davies, 1798.
Baillie, Joanna, and Elizabeth Inchbald. De Monfort. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807.
Baillie, Joanna. Dramas. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1836, 3 vols.
Baillie, Joanna. “Editorial Materials”. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie, edited by Judith Bailey Slagle, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, pp. ix - xiv, 1.
Baillie, Joanna. Epilogue to the Theatrical Representation at Strawberry-Hill. 1800.
Baillie, Joanna. Fugitive Verses. E. Moxon, 1840.
Baillie, Joanna. Further Letters. Editor McLean, Thomas, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2010.
Baillie, Joanna. Henriquez. M. Carey, 1836.
Baillie, Joanna. “Introduction”. Poems, 1790, edited by Jonathan Wordsworth, Woodstock, 1994.
Baillie, Joanna. “Introduction”. The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851, edited by Jennifer Breen, Manchester University Press, 1999, pp. 1-25.
Baillie, Joanna. Lines on the Death of Sir Walter Scott. 1832.
Baillie, Joanna. Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821.
Baillie, Joanna. Miscellaneous Plays. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; A. Constable, 1804.
Baillie, Joanna. Plays on the Passions. T. Caddell and W. Davies, 1812, 3 vols.
Baillie, Joanna. Plays on the Passions. Editor Duthie, Peter, Broadview, 2001.
Baillie, Joanna. Poems, 1790. J. Johnson, 1790.
Baillie, Joanna, and George, 1757 - 1851 Thomson. “Songs”. Thomson’s Collection of the Songs of Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Bart. and other Eminent Lyric Poets, Preston, 1824, p. various pages.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
Baillie, Joanna. The Complete Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie. Carey and Lea, 1832.
Baillie, Joanna. The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851.
Baillie, Joanna. The Election. M. Carey, 1811.
Baillie, Joanna. The Family Legend. John Ballantyne; Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1810.