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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Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
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	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. Slagle, Judith BaileyEditor , Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999. 1: 420
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.
Anthologization	Anna Maria Porter	Her Hymn on the Seasons was included by Joanna Baillie in her Collection of Poems, published in early 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	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.
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, James Raven, and Rainer Schöwerling, editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000. 2: 341
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 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...
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	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. Joanna Baillie , seeing BBBD in June (presumably that year), reported that she could not talk about her...
Friends, Associates	Elizabeth Grant	Reduced financial circumstances did not prevent EG from meeting interesting people. In May 1823, when she went to visit an uncle who lived close to Hampstead Heath, she met at dinners the writers Joanna Baillie
Friends, Associates	Eliza Fletcher	On her first visit to London, EF met Joanna Baillie (with whom her friendship endured for years) and Anna Letitia Barbauld . Fletcher, Eliza. Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, of Edinburgh. Mary, Lady Richardson,Editor , Printed at the offices of C. Thurman for private circulation, 1874. 71

Timeline

1749

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock published Der Messias, a religiouspoem in three cantos.

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.

Early 1818

William Hazlitt opened On the Living Poets, the last of his Lectures on the English Poets, with a statement on gender issues.

By 19 December 1831

Cholera was sufficiently widespread in London for Joanna Baillie to comment on the general panic and uneasiness.

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.

1835

Caroline Herschel and Mary Somerville were awarded honorary memberships by the Royal Astronomical Society .

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.

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.

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 was to become the Oxford English Dictionary—issued an Appeal for readers to supply illustrative quotations.

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.