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

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Friends, Associates Maria Callcott
Her friends at this period of her life included the diarist and letter-writer Caroline Fox (with whom her relationship was very close),
This is the Hon. Caroline Fox (1767-1845), not to be confused with the...
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.
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Friends, Associates Mary Somerville
The Somervilles' circle was not purely a scientific one, and MS became a friend of the actress Lady Becher and with the Baillie family. She accompanied Joanna Baillie to the opening of the latter's play...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
Having already praised many contemporary women writers in print, EOB was now able to meet them. The move to London was accomplished principally through the zealous friendship of Miss Sarah Wesley , who had already...
Friends, Associates Margaret Holford
Foremost among the friends whom she evidently made through her writing was Joanna Baillie , with whom she opened a correspondence in 1813 which began with reciprocal compliments, and whose books she energetically publicised. Years...
Friends, Associates Sophia Lee
A bluestocking-style brilliant Constellation
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press.
185
of ladies, gathered at the Leesisters ' house in Bath, debated the authorship of Plays on the Passions, which were not yet known to be by Joanna Baillie .
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press.
185
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
The guests included Joanna Baillie , Jane Porter (both mentioned as celebrities) and Eliza Fenwick .
Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence. Editor Sadler, Thomas, Macmillan.
199-200
Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary.
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Robinson
MR 's daughter grew up to be a writer, and to publish two books under her own name as well as revising and editing work by MR . Hers are the gothic, epistolary Minerva novel...
Family and Intimate relationships Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre
Arabella's monument in Kimpton church says she died after a long illness borne with Christian cheeerfulness.
Hale, Peter. Noble and Splendid. Scandal, Honour and Duty: The Families of Kimpton Hoo. http://www.kimptonvillage.tsohost.co.uk/Groups/History/N%20and%20S%20revd%201.pdf.
Joanna Baillie , seeing BBBD in June (presumably that year), reported that she could not talk about her...
Education Elizabeth Gaskell
The school moved to Avonbank House in Stratford upon Avon, a Tudor mansion that had once belonged to a cousin of Shakespeare's, in May 1824. Here Elizabeth learned English, history, geography and music. Women...
Dedications Felicia Hemans
FH 's poetic collection Records of Woman was published by Blackwood with a dedication to Joanna Baillie .
Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, pp. 1-315.
136
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Dedications Mary Brunton
MB published at Edinburgh and London her first, anonymous novel, Self-Control; she dated her dedication of it to Joanna Baillie this month.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
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Dedications Margaret Holford
She dated her dedication to Joanna Baillie on 18 May from Hendon Place. Baillie had thanked her for the honour on the 15th. The novel was reviewed in August. French and German translations quickly...
Dedications Mary Ann Kelty
According to a reminiscence from the early half of 1868 by a reader who had been a Cambridge undergraduate when the book appeared, MAK first thought of titling her novel after its heroine, but was...
death Henrietta Maria Bowdler
Joanna Baillie told Margaret Hodson (formerly Holford) that HMB , who was devotedly nursed by a friend, was kept ignorant by her doctors of what disease she had (oddly, since she knew she had not...

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