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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Reception | Margaret Holford | Mary Russell Mitford
called this novel an attempt to portray the poet Byron
, recognisable through several anecdotes familiarly told about him, in very black and exaggerated colors. She maintained that Joanna Baillie
, as... |
| Reception | Catherine Gore | When CG
's play won the prize, a storm of controversy arose, in which the result was contested and every aspect of the selection process subjected to scrutiny and argument. There were rumours of fixing... |
| Reception | Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre | Joanna Baillie
took pains to secure a box for the first night, which turned out to be the only one. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols. 1: 166 |
| Reception | Lucy Aikin | On this date Joanna Baillie
reported that she and her sister were deeply engaged Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols. 1: 174 Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols. 1: 174 |
| Reception | Constance Naden | He offered a list of the best eight women poets, where CN
was included together with Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(at the head) and Christina Rossetti
(who was annoyed that he omitted Augusta Webster
). He... |
| Textual Features | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
draws on Hannah More
, her niece Lucy Aikin
, and (anonymously) Joanna Baillie
. She is even-handed in that she includes six excerpts from James Fordyce
's Sermons to Young Women, a... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Inchbald | EI
did not choose the plays herself. Shakespeare fills the first five volumes, apart from one piece by Ben Jonson
, and five of her own plays fill volume 20. The eighteenth century is better... |
| Textual Features | Margaret Holford | Joanna Baillie
was moved by these verses and judged them to be indeed an affectionate & touching lament for the Beautiful & brave. She liked particularly the sentiment that every stranger who looked on his... |
| Textual Features | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
's letters regularly indulge in analysis of books. She comments on works by both men and women, in English and French, and her opinions shift a good deal with age. She reacted with horror... |
| Textual Features | Maria Jane Jewsbury | MJJ
used the Athenæum to express her opinions on women's writing. A review of Anna Maria Hall
's Sketches of Irish Character criticizes the author's erroneous ambition Athenæum. J. Lection. 182 (1831): 262 |
| 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 Features | Christian Isobel Johnstone | The title-page of the first quotes from Francis Bacon
(Knowledge is Power) and from the mother of Sir William Jones
(Read and you will know). Johnstone, Christian Isobel. Diversions of Hollycot. Oliver and Boyd, 1828. title-page |
| Textual Features | Carola Oman | She notes that the writer Anne Grant
was the first person known to have applied the wizard title to Scott, though she is unable actually to credit her as its originator. Oman, Carola. The Wizard of the North. Hodder and Stoughton, 1973. 10 |
| Textual Production | Anne Hunter | Joanna Baillie
reported that AH
(whom she wrongly thought to be seventy-three) was still writing with as much elegance & ease as she ever did. Baillie particularly liked her translation from Italian of a poem... |
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