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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 | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| 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/. |
| Friends, Associates | Sara Coleridge | During her first pregnancy, SC
received frequent visits from friends Joanna Baillie
and Maria Jane Jewsbury
. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press. 54-5 |
| 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 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Georgiana Chatterton | GC
's so-called diary describes much of its material retrospectively. It uses many anecdotes of society as retailed by her mother, her aunt, or others whose memories went back further than her own, as well... |
| Friends, Associates | Georgiana Chatterton | Other celebrities she met as a girl and described in her diary included society hostess Lady Cork
and writers Joanna Baillie
, William Wordsworth
, and Samuel Rogers
. Athenæum. J. Lection. 2640 (1878): 693 Dering, Edward Heneage, and Georgiana Chatterton. Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton. Hurst and Blackett. 34, 76 |
| Friends, Associates | Georgiana Chatterton | In Italy GC
met one of her closest friends, Helen Selina Blackwood
, Caroline Norton
's elder sister. Dering, Edward Heneage, and Georgiana Chatterton. Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton. Hurst and Blackett. 26 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. Dering, Edward Heneage, and Georgiana Chatterton. Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton. Hurst and Blackett. 37 |
| Textual Features | Catherine Carswell | Open the Door! demonstrates the imprint of Glasgow, music, and art on CC
's literary imagination. The novel's heroine, Joanna Bannerman, is a young girl of the late 1800s trying to escape the narrow... |
| Textual Production | Mary Carpenter | Tuckerman (1778 - 20 April 1840) was a Unitarian minister whose work among Boston's poorest earned him the title of the father of American social work. A lifelong friend of William Ellery Channing
, he... |
| Friends, Associates | Dorothea Primrose Campbell | At some date DPC
visited Joanna Baillie
and offered her a copy of Harley Radington (1821); Baillie's kindly letter in reply to this offer sounds more like a potential patron than like a friend. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 2: 1159 |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Dorothea Primrose Campbell | Joanna Baillie
assured DPC
that she and her sister had been sufficiently impressed to go back and re-read several parts of the novel. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 2: 1159 |
| Friends, Associates | Maria Callcott | During the early years of her first marriage, between her time in India and in Italy, Maria Graham (later MC
) met Jane Marcet
and the publisher John Murray
. Gotch, Rosamund Brunel. Maria, Lady Callcott, The Creator of ’Little Arthur’. J. Murray. 153-4, 166 |
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