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
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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... |
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... |
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... |
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 | Mary Somerville | The text was praised by Maria Edgeworth
for hav[ing] enlarged my conception of the sublimity of the universe, beyond any ideas I had ever before been enable to form. qtd. in Somerville, Mary. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville. Editor Somerville, Martha, 1815 - 1879, Roberts Brothers, 1874. 204 |
Literary responses | Anna Brownell Jameson | Reviewers noted the fact that it was a woman who had set out on this bold journey. Christian Isobel Johnstone
's review in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine was fairly typical in suggesting that that Winter Studies... |
Literary responses | Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre | Joanna Baillie
thought this the most stage-worthy of her friend's plays, if not the best in other respects. Grey, Barbarina Charlotte, Lady. A Family Chronicle. Editor Lyster, Gertrude, John Murray, 1908. 30-1, 39 |
Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | The play's debut was disappointing. It closed after a single night, though it was remounted with greater success in Edinburgh the following April with Harriet Siddons
in a major role (having been recruited at Joanna Baillie |
Literary responses | Anna Seward | Scott
confided to Joanna Baillie
after AS
's death that he had developed a most unsentimental horror for her sentimental letters while he was receiving them. qtd. in Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931. 252 |
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 |
Literary responses | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
's plays were admired by Maria Edgeworth
, Joanna Baillie
, and Felicia Hemans
, though John Genest
(in Some Account of the English Stage, from the Restoration in 1660 to 1830, 1832), judged them dull. |
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