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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Felicia Hemans | The volume takes its epigraphs and historical starting-points from a wide range of sources, including major male Romantics—Wordsworth
, Byron
, Coleridge
, Goethe
, Schiller
—and lesser-known contemporaries including women—Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Felicia Hemans | Scenes and Hymns of Life includes Prisoners' Evening Service, which imagines the last days of two prisoners awaiting execution during the French Revolution, and affectingly described by Helen Maria Williams
. qtd. in Duquette, Natasha Aleksiuk. Veiled Intent: Dissenting Women’s Approach to Biblical Interpretation. Pickwick Publications, 2016. 167n3 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Howitt | The Seven Temptations, a volume of dramatic verse sketches, builds on Joanna Baillie
's Plays on the Passions. Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992. 193 Greenfield, John R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 110. Gale Research, 1991. 110: 146 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Grisell Murray | The preface comments that GM
's detailed writing about her mother was instrumental in inspiring Joanna Baillie
's ballad about Grisell Baillie in Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters. Murray, Grisell. Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Right Honourable George Baillie of Jerviswood and of Lady Grisell Baillie. 1822. x n1 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Porter | Again her work was extremely popular. The French translation was banned by Napoleon
because of its portrayal of nationalist resistance to conquest. 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. |
| 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... |
| Leisure and Society | Mary Berry | Anne Damer
, who broke new ground for women by her serious pursuit of a career as a sculptor, on 6 December 1793 completed a terracotta bust of MB
(now in the National Portrait Gallery |
| Literary responses | Margaret Holford | The reception of this second long poem was far less favourable than that of Wallace. The Monthly Review denied it literary merit while granting it some potential literary-historical interest. The poem was, wrote the... |
| Literary responses | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Though the first review to appear, in the Monthly Repository, expressed admiration (and some anti-war feeling), McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. 476 |
| Literary responses | Fanny Kemble | In its review the Athenæum placed Kemble in the ranks with Joanna Baillie
and Mary Russell Mitford
, though her published original contributions in this form are only three—her school-girl essay which became the play... |
| Literary responses | Margaret Holford | Joanna Baillie
, to whom the author sent the volume, liked it on the first reading, and still better on the second. She found the title poem truly beautiful, full of striking & pleasing, melancholy... |
| Literary responses | Mary Brunton | This novel was reviewed at the beginning of the next year. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 5th ser. 1 (1815): 84 |
| Literary responses | Lady Caroline Lamb | When Glenarvon first appeared, said Lady Caroline, William Lamb
admired it so much that it was instrumental in bringing the separated couple back together. Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols. 2: 202 |
| 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/. |
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