Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
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...
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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
in attempting to portray villains...
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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.
title-page
It portrays the widow Mrs...
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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...
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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.
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She mentions Joanna Baillie
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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...
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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...
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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...
Wilkes, Joanne. “’Only the broken music’? The Critical Writings of Maria Jane Jewsbury”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 1, pp. 105-18.
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Mary Russell Mitford
It seems that MRM
first caught the ambition of being a writer from her teacher Frances Arabella Rowden
. Her early letters about her own poetry are also largely concerned with Rowden's Pleasures of Friendship...
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Lucy Aikin
LA
memoir of Anna Letitia Barbauld
, in her edition of Barbauld's Works, June 1825, represents a well-planned if largely unsuccessful attempt to establish and preserve Barbauld's reputation after systemic attack by political conservatives...
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Margaret Holford
After her marriage Margaret Hodson published through John Murray
in 1827 a volume of hymns designed especially for those facing death, written or else collected by herself. In September that year Joanna Baillie
thanked her...
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Margaret Holford
It appears that by late August 1824 Holford had written a tragedy, as yet unperformed and unpublished, from which she wished Thomas Campbell
to make extracts for appearing in the New Monthly Magazine, of...
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Catherine Fanshawe
The letters that CF
sent to Anne Grant
are not extant, but Grant's side of the correspondence leaves no doubt that the two were in constant dialogue about new books they had read, and their...
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Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre
Dacre wrote the epilogue too, which was delivered by her daughter in character as the heroine.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
N13508 (6 February 1828): 3
She had invited Joanna Baillie
and her sister
to attend, though the latter was...
