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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.
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Ann Radcliffe | AR
was much upset when on the first, anonymous appearance of Joanna Baillie
's Plays on the Passions she was suspected of being the author: especially when she later learned that Anna Seward
, for... |
| Textual Production | Anne Hunter | Joanna Baillie
reported that AH
(whom she wrongly thought to be seventy-three) was still writing with as much elegance & ease as she ever did. Baillie particularly liked her translation from Italian of a poem... |
| Textual Production | Anne Marsh | AM
wrote for her own amusement from an early age. Letters exchanged in November 1813 and the succeeding months, when she was twenty-two, by women of the Wedgwood family, discuss and warmly praise her play... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Alice Meynell | Many of the essays reprinted here focus on women writers who were, to put it mildly, little known to the public in the 1940s. These included: Anna Seward
and Joanna Baillie
, as well as... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Berry | Like most of her correspondents, Berry is somewhat wordy, given to tiptoeing round the nuances of sentiment. Her letters to Walpole, like his to her, are divided between professions of affection and the endless chronicle... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Grant | She likes her reading to be strenuous: she recommends Jane Austen
's Mansfield Park as light reading, Grant, Anne. Memoir and Correspondence of Mrs. Grant of Laggan. Editor Grant, John Peter, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844, 3 vols. 2: 68 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eunice Guthrie Murray | Her subjects here include such comparatively well-known authors as Joanna Baillie
, Anne Grant
, and Margaret Oliphant
, and also the almost unknown diarist and novelist Margaret Calderwood
. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Clara Balfour | In her general overview of the history of English literature during these centuries, she focuses especially on English poets because as she says, great poets not only give form, power and beauty to a nation's... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maria Jane Jewsbury | Having dismissed the ostensible subject of her review, Baillie
's The Nature and Dignity of Christ, as proving that controversial theology is better left alone by ladies, qtd. in Wilkes, Joanne. “’Only the broken music’? The Critical Writings of Maria Jane Jewsbury”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 7 , No. 1, 2000, pp. 105-18. 115 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Bannerman | |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Georgiana Chatterton | GC
's so-called diary describes much of its material retrospectively. It uses many anecdotes of society as retailed by her mother, her aunt, or others whose memories went back further than her own, as well... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sarah Tytler | The book is prefaced by a glossary which informs the reader that Edinburgh is nicknamed Auld Reekie, that to gowl is to weep noisily, to rug and rive is to carry off by violence... |
| Travel | Augusta Ada Byron | Ada visited, among other places, Genoa, Turin, Lake Geneva, Mont Blanc, and Stuttgart. She wrote letters describing the Alps to her mother's close friend the writer Joanna Baillie
. Byron, Augusta Ada. Ada, The Enchantress of Numbers. Editor Toole, Betty A., Strawberry Press, 1992. 28 Woolley, Benjamin. The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason and Byron’s Daughter. Macmillan, 1999. 110-11 |
| Travel | Catherine Fanshawe | On 23 August 1832, CF
and her sister(s) arrived at a Hampstead house next door to that of Joanna Baillie
, but this seems to have been just a visit. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols. 1: 222-3 |
| Travel | Maria Jane Jewsbury | In 1830 she spent part of the summer in London. Clarke, Norma. Ambitious Heights. Routledge, 1990. 155 Clarke, Norma. Ambitious Heights. Routledge, 1990. 29 Espinasse, Francis, and Francis Espinasse. “Maria Jane Jewsbury”. Lancashire Worthies: Second Series, Simpkin, Marshall; John Heywood, 1877, pp. 323-39. 328 Fryckstedt, Monica Correa. “The Hidden Rill: The Life and Career of Maria Jane Jewsbury, I”. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Vol. 66 , No. 2, The Library, 1 Mar.–31 May 1984, pp. 177-03. 198 |
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