Joanna Baillie

11 September 1762 - 23 February 1851

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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Textual Production	A. Mary F. Robinson	In the same year, 1894, AMFR contributed critical introductions to selections by Felicia Hemans and Joanna Baillie in The English Poets, edited by Humphry Ward (husband of the well-known novelist ). Robinson, A. Mary F. et al. “Critical Introductions”. The English Poets, edited by Thomas Humphry Ward, New Edition, Macmillian, 1897, pp. 4: 221 -34. 4: ix-x
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...
Textual Production	Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre	BBBD was a conscientious and entertaining letter-writer with a large circle of correspondents. The Plymouth and West Devon Record Office holds a collection of her correspondence from the 1840s with Frances Parker, Countess of Morley
Textual Production	Mary Howitt	The work was dedicated to Caroline Bowles , with whom MH 's sometimes shaky friendship was currently flourishing. Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press, 1952. 77 Its year-date comes from the copy in the Osborne Collection at Toronto, and the narrower...
Textual Production	Henrietta Maria Bowdler	This too was written long before publication: in 1801, HMB said in a preface dated 1819, with the aim of combating the ideas of Godwin and other Jacobins, and the horrors of the French Revolution...
Textual Production	Ann Radcliffe	AR was much upset when on the first, anonymous appearance of Joanna Baillie 's Plays on the Passions she was suspected of being the author: especially when she later learned that Anna Seward , for...
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...
Textual Production	Anne Marsh	AM wrote for her own amusement from an early age. Letters exchanged in November 1813 and the succeeding months, when she was twenty-two, by women of the Wedgwood family, discuss and warmly praise her play...
Textual Production	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...
Textual Production	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...
Textual Production	Mary Berry	Few letters survive among those which both sisters wrote regularly to Horace Walpole during the late 1780s; his to them appear as volumes 11 and 12 in the Yale edition of his correspondence. Mary also...
Textual Production	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...
Textual Production	Maria Jane Jewsbury	MJJ took occasion, in a review of Joanna Baillie for the Athenæum, to praise not only Baillie but also Ann Radcliffe , Elizabeth Inchbald , and Mary Wollstonecraft . Wilkes, Joanne. “’Only the broken music’? The Critical Writings of Maria Jane Jewsbury”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 7 , No. 1, 2000, pp. 105-18. 115
Textual Production	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...
Textual Production	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...

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