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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Mary Berry | Anne Damer
had been encouraging MB
to keep working on her play as early as December 1793. In December 1795 it was complete enough for her to show it to a friend, the mathematician John Playfair |
| Textual Production | Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre | In March 1819 Joanna Baillie
had described her as Still hankering after the Drama, but fearful & diffident of herself. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols. 2: 1191 |
| Textual Production | Mary Berry | She had perhaps begun to form this intention as early as 7 May 1797, when she noted her desire to preserve her memories of these turbulent and alarming times. Berry, Mary. Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry. Editor Lewis, Lady Theresa, Longmans, Green, 1865, 3 vols. 2: 22 |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Travel | Anne Hunter | In September 1811 AH
took a cottage on the outskirts of Windsor Forest for a few weeks, close to another one where Joanna Baillie
and her late brother's family were staying, for a holiday with... |
| 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 |
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