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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Hamilton | While in Wales they visited Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
(the ladies of Llangollen) and in the Lakes they stayed with Elizabeth Smith
and her family. Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy. Memoirs of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1818, 2 vols. 1: 152-4 Smith, Elizabeth, 1776 - 1806. Fragments, In Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell, 1811. 151 |
| Friends, Associates | Helen Maria Williams | That year HMW
was introduced by Dr John Moore
to Burns
, with whom she then corresponded. She met Samuel Rogers
(in November 1787), Hester Lynch Piozzi
, and Sir Joshua Reynolds
. The year... |
| Friends, Associates | Sara Coleridge | Among women writers, in addition to Dorothy Wordsworth
, Joanna Baillie
, and Maria Jane Jewsbury
, SC
also knew Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, Anna Jameson
, Elizabeth Rigby
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, and Harriet Martineau |
| Friends, Associates | Maria Edgeworth | By now ME
was a celebrity, and could count on being introduced to the local literati when she travelled. On this visit to London she finally met Etiénne Dumont
, the utilitarian, with whom she... |
| Friends, Associates | Anne Hunter | Among Anne's personal friends and guests at her gatherings were Elizabeth Carter
, Mary Delany
, Elizabeth Montagu
, Hester Thrale
, her niece by marriage Joanna Baillie
(whom she first met when Baillie came... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Bryan | MB
approached Sir Walter Scott
on 10 June 1818, seeking the furtherance of her literary career. The extant correspondence spans nine years. His side does not survive, and there is no evidence that they ever... |
| Friends, Associates | Sophia Lee | A bluestocking-style brilliant Constellation Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999. 185 Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999. 185 |
| Friends, Associates | Felicia Hemans | FH
's literary correspondents and friends included Grace Aguilar
, Joanna Baillie
(whose Beacon she recalled reading when very young), and Mary Howitt
. Elwood, Anne Katharine. Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England, from the Commencement of the Last Century. Henry Colburn, 1843, 2 vols. 238 Chorley, Henry Fothergill. Memorials of Mrs. Hemans. Saunders and Otley, 1836, 2 vols. I: 145 |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | Having already praised many contemporary women writers in print, EOB
was now able to meet them. The move to London was accomplished principally through the zealous friendship of Miss Sarah Wesley
, who had already... |
| Health | Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre | In 1831 the sixty-three-year-old BBBD
had a fall from her horse which was serious enough to be much noticed. 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. |
| Health | Susan Ferrier | She also began to lose her eyesight in middle age. She mentioned this affliction in 1830, and Joanna Baillie
noted in June 1831 that she was in living in a darkened state because of her... |
| Health | Ann Radcliffe | Rictor Norton believes that AR
may have suffered a nervous breakdown in 1803, after finishing Gaston de Blondeville, and another in late 1812, after the publishing of Anna Seward
's letters alleging that she... |
| Health | Eliza Parsons | Splinters of bone were still at that time working their way out through her skin. She believed that the physician John Hunter
(uncle of Joanna Baillie
) saved her life. Parsons, Eliza, and William Windham. Letter to William Windham, 14 May [1794]. http://BL Add M3 37914. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Felicia Hemans | She particularly admired Joanna Baillie
's Ethwald and the Chronicles of Froissart
. Germaine de Staël
's Corinne was another major influence on her. She wrote years later: That book, in particular towards its close... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Felicia Hemans | The volume cost nine shillings and sixpence, and when the edition of 1,000 sold out, FH
's share of the profits split with John Murray
was £66. According to recent editors of the text, the... |
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