Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
MJJ
used the Athenæum to express her opinions on women's writing. A review of Anna Maria Hall
's Sketches of Irish Character criticizes the author's erroneous ambition
Athenæum. J. Lection.
182 (1831): 262
in attempting to portray villains...
Textual Features
Margaret Holford
Joanna Baillie
was moved by these verses and judged them to be indeed an affectionate & touching lament for the Beautiful & brave. She liked particularly the sentiment that every stranger who looked on his...
Textual Features
Christian Isobel Johnstone
The title-page of the first quotes from Francis Bacon
(Knowledge is Power) and from the mother of Sir William Jones
(Read and you will know).
Johnstone, Christian Isobel. Diversions of Hollycot. Oliver and Boyd.
title-page
It portrays the widow Mrs...
Textual Features
Carola Oman
She notes that the writer Anne Grant
was the first person known to have applied the wizard title to Scott, though she is unable actually to credit her as its originator.
Oman, Carola. The Wizard of the North. Hodder and Stoughton.
10
She mentions Joanna Baillie
Textual Features
Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB
draws on Hannah More
, her niece Lucy Aikin
, and (anonymously) Joanna Baillie
. She is even-handed in that she includes six excerpts from James Fordyce
's Sermons to Young Women, a...
Reception
Margaret Holford
Mary Russell Mitford
called this novel an attempt to portray the poet Byron
, recognisable through several anecdotes familiarly told about him, in very black and exaggerated colors. She maintained that Joanna Baillie
, as...
Reception
Lucy Aikin
On this date Joanna Baillie
reported that she and her sister were deeply engaged
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
1: 174
in this work, and finding themselves fascinated.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
1: 174
Reception
Catherine Gore
When CG
's play won the prize, a storm of controversy arose, in which the result was contested and every aspect of the selection process subjected to scrutiny and argument. There were rumours of fixing...
Joanna Baillie
took pains to secure a box for the first night, which turned out to be the only one.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
1: 166
Publishing
Margaret Holford
The poem was reprinted by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
in 1810. In 1821 the author was making enquiries of Longman
through Joanna Baillie
as to how many copies remained of this edition and...
Publishing
Caroline Scott
Another edition of A Marriage in High Life appeared in 1836, besides a Philadelphia edition of 1833, and German and French translations (of which the latter was misascribed to Joanna Baillie
).
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.
Publishing
Maria Edgeworth
ME
intended her fiction to serve the same broadly didactic purpose, adapted to each rank of society and period of life, as did the directly educational writings in which she collaborated with her father.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
287
Publishing
Olaudah Equiano
Equiano was already a well-known figure in the abolitionist movement in Britain when his book appeared. He had issued Proposals for his subscription in November 1788 (the same month that George III
fell ill, probably...
Publishing
Helena Wells
She published this with Longman
, signing her preface Helena Wells Whitford, though the title-page says only by the Author of the Step-Mother. Subscribers included Joanna Baillie
and Anne Hunter
. The title-page...
