Joanna Baillie

11 September 1762 - 23 February 1851

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	Author name Sort descending	Excerpt
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
Literary responses	Camilla Crosland	CC enjoyed moderate success during her life. Her writings earned her a modest income (in the 1840s it was about fifty pounds a year) and the critics were generally complimentary. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. A review in the Morning...
Occupation	Anne Damer	AD appeared in private theatricals first at her brother-in-law the Duke of Richmond 's, and later at Strawberry Hill. Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press. 97 In November 1800 she delivered Joanna Baillie 's Epilogue to the Theatrical Representation at...
Friends, Associates	Anne Damer	AD 's wide circle of friends included Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , Lady Melbourne , Joanna Baillie , Sarah Siddons , the Berrysisters , the dramatist Lady Elizabeth Craven (formerly Berkeley, later Margravine of Anspach)
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...
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...
Anthologization	Catherine Fanshawe	Joanna Baillie included four poems by Catherine Fanshawe , anonymously, in A Collection of Poems, Chiefly Manuscript, and from Living Authors, Edited for the Benefit of a Friend. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 1: 420
Literary responses	Catherine Fanshawe	Nearly twenty years after CF died, Mary Russell Mitford 's Recollections of a Literary Life supplied the first public comment on her; the publication also included four poems by Fanshawe that had previously appeared in...
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. 1: 222-3
Friends, Associates	Catherine Fanshawe	CF 's friends included other highly literate middle-class women such as Mary Berry and Anne Grant in Edinburgh. (Her friendship with Grant was maintained entirely by correspondence—she and her sisters hoped to visit Edinburgh in...
Textual Production	Catherine Fanshawe	The letters that CF sent to Anne Grant are not extant, but Grant's side of the correspondence leaves no doubt that the two were in constant dialogue about new books they had read, and their...
Literary responses	Catherine Fanshawe	CF 's immediately posthumous reputation rested, like her writings themselves, on oral tradition. She had the admiration of William Cowper and Walter Scott , as well as Joanna Baillie , Anne Grant , and Mary Berry
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...
Literary responses	Susan Ferrier	Again SF met with success on balance. The Athenæum, however, naming Miss Ferriar as author, stated that the success of Marriage, backed by the good-natured commendation of Sir Walter Scott , induced the...

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