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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 | Margaret Holford | MH
's friends were said to include Anna Seward
. She is not mentioned in Teresa Barnard
's biography of Seward. |
| Friends, Associates | Maria Jane Jewsbury | |
| Friends, Associates | Anne Grant | At about this time her friends included Robert Southey
, Joanna Baillie
, and Eliza Fletcher
. With the last-named her warm and close personal friendship triumphed over their opposing politics (Grant being a Tory... |
| 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. Editor Richardson, Mary, Lady, Printed at the offices of C. Thurman for private circulation, 1874. 71 |
| Friends, Associates | Margaret Holford | Foremost among the friends whom she evidently made through her writing was Joanna Baillie
, with whom she opened a correspondence in 1813 which began with reciprocal compliments, and whose books she energetically publicised. Years... |
| Friends, Associates | Eliza Fletcher | Joanna Baillie
(a well qualified judge) thought few people have so many friends as EF
, and that they all warmly esteemed as well as loving her. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols. 2: 699 |
| Friends, Associates | Georgiana Chatterton | Other celebrities she met as a girl and described in her diary included society hostess Lady Cork
and writers Joanna Baillie
, William Wordsworth
, and Samuel Rogers
. Athenæum. J. Lection. 2640 (1878): 693 Dering, Edward Heneage, and Georgiana Chatterton. Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton. Hurst and Blackett, 1878. 34, 76 |
| Friends, Associates | Georgiana Chatterton | In Italy GC
met one of her closest friends, Helen Selina Blackwood
, Caroline Norton
's elder sister. Dering, Edward Heneage, and Georgiana Chatterton. Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton. Hurst and Blackett, 1878. 26 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Dering, Edward Heneage, and Georgiana Chatterton. Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton. Hurst and Blackett, 1878. 37 |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Kelty | She goes on to quote Johnson
, Cowper
, Emerson
(with whose thought she engages in some detail), and many other canonical names. Among women she quotes from Mary Bosanquet Fletcher
(a passage about communion... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Jane Pfeiffer | The poem is framed by a substantial first-person prose narrative about a party of people visiting the Isle of Mull, off the west coast of Scotland. The speaker, evidently EJP
herself, relates how her... |
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