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.
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Literary responses | Catherine Gore | Joanna Baillie
some years later remembered reading The Bond and finding it very striking . . . finely worked up, and beautifully written. Barbarina Charlotte, Lady Grey,. A Family Chronicle. Editor Lyster, Gertrude, John Murray. 146 |
Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | Appreciation of FH
was slowly growing. Following on the positive responses from Scott
and Byron
, in October 1820John Taylor Coleridge
in the influential Quarterly Review (published by John Murray
, her own publisher)... |
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/. |
Literary responses | Frances Burney | The Memoirsdid not win critical acclaim, Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press. 378 |
Literary responses | Mary Tighe | As soon as it was brought to public attention (as the work of a woman who had died tragically young), Psyche attracted a rush of attention. The Quarterly Review accorded Tighe high praise as being... |
Literary responses | Margaret Holford | Baillie
praised the language of Holford's hymns as beautiful if perhaps a little too oriental,and the thoughts just & elevated & appropriate to the awful situation for which they are intended. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 2: 601 |
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 | Anne Bannerman | After her death AB
was quickly forgotten. Yet literary historian Stuart Curran
has recently noted the influence of her poetry on Dorothea Primrose Campbell
. Critic Adriana Craciun
, writing for the website Scottish Women... |
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... |
Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | Joanna Baillie
found some exquisite things in this volume, written with FH
's own peculiar strain of melancholy tenderness. . . . Aye, woman becomes a most-noble & generous being, painted by her hand! Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 2: 709 |
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. 476 |
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. Barbarina Charlotte, Lady Grey,. A Family Chronicle. Editor Lyster, Gertrude, John Murray. 30-1, 39 |
Literary responses | Anna Mary Howitt | The earlier set of illustrations was warmly praised by Joanna Baillie
. |
Literary responses | Isabel Hill | A notice in The London Magazine favourably compared The Poet's Child to Joanna Baillie
's writing, and described its use of language as simple, in exceedingly pure taste, and at times eminently beautiful. Hill, Benson Earle. “Memoir of the Late Isabel Hill”. The Monthly Magazine, Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper. 182 |
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... |
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