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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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, Feb. 1842. 182 |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Mary Berry | The sculptor Richard Westmacott
wrote to MB
expressing regret at the lack of attention paid her historical work, and contrasting it with the fashion for female gothic by, for instance, Charlotte Dacre
(Rosa Matilda... |
| 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, 1999. 97 |
| Occupation | Catherine Hutton | As well as collecting illustrations of costume, CH
was an early collector of autographs. (She began both these collections at a young age, but presumably had to start again from scratch after her losses in... |
| Performance of text | Jane Porter | When the curtain rose Kean
(possibly drunk) appeared to have lost his memory, and his power of action.—The other Performers became disconcerted in their parts . . . the whole became a chaos of uproar... |
| Performance of text | Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | An epilogue she wrote for Joanna Baillie
's tragedy De Montfort was spoken by Sarah Siddons
when the play opened at Drury Lane Theatre
, London, on 29 April 1800. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998. 331 |
| Publishing | Anne Grant | In 1827 Joanna Baillie
had heard about a proposed US edition, by subscription, of AG
's poems. She thought the money raised would be transmitted to Grant with a generosity which she thought typically American... |
| Publishing | Margaret Holford | The poem was reprinted by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
in 1810. In 1821 the author was making enquiries of Longman
through Joanna Baillie
as to how many copies remained of this edition and... |
| Publishing | Helen Maria Williams | The Poems were in two volumes, with HMW
's name in full, published by Rivington and Marshall
, with an engraved frontispiece drawn by Maria Cosway
. Subscribers included the Prince of Wales
(whose name... |
| 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, 1972. 287 |
| Publishing | Helena Wells | She published this with Longman
, signing her preface Helena Wells Whitford, though the title-page says only by the Author of the Step-Mother. Subscribers included Joanna Baillie
and Anne Hunter
. The title-page... |
| 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... |
| Publishing | Dorothea Primrose Campbell | As payment Campbell received twenty copies of the novel. She offered one to Joanna Baillie
, who replied that since she and her sister had already read it, it might be better for Campbell to... |
| Publishing | Caroline Scott | Another edition of A Marriage in High Life appeared in 1836, besides a Philadelphia edition of 1833, and German and French translations (of which the latter was misascribed to Joanna Baillie
). British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
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