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.

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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 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It appears that by late August 1824 Holford had written a tragedy, as yet unperformed and unpublished, from which she wished Thomas Campbell to make extracts for appearing in the New Monthly Magazine, of...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 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 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 Mary Berry
Anne Damer had been encouraging MB to keep working on her play as early as December 1793. In December 1795 it was complete enough for her to show it to a friend, the mathematician John Playfair
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...
Textual Production Mary Berry
She had perhaps begun to form this intention as early as 7 May 1797, when she noted her desire to preserve her memories of these turbulent and alarming times.
Berry, Mary. Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry. Editor Lewis, Lady Theresa, Longmans, Green, 1865, 3 vols.
2: 22
In 1821 Joanna Baillie
Textual Production Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre
In March 1819 Joanna Baillie had described her as Still hankering after the Drama, but fearful & diffident of herself.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
2: 1191
Dacre's prefatory comments play down her ambition and even her skill, but she...
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 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...
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 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

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