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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Literary responses	Anna Letitia Barbauld	Though the first review to appear, in the Monthly Repository, expressed admiration (and some anti-war feeling), McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 476 other responses were disapproving, even vitriolic. Many cited the allegedly unpatriotic tendency of the poem in terms...
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...
Literary responses	Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre	Joanna Baillie , while she liked the Burns imitations as poetry, observed that the Scots idiom was not quite right. Barbarina Charlotte, Lady Grey,. A Family Chronicle. Editor Lyster, Gertrude, John Murray. 39
Literary responses	Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre	Joanna Baillie thought the dialogue here very clever and natural. Barbarina Charlotte, Lady Grey,. A Family Chronicle. Editor Lyster, Gertrude, John Murray. 152
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
Friends, Associates	Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre	Her many literary friendships, maintained in part by correspondence, included those with Joanna Baillie and Mary Russell Mitford (who first met each other in her drawing-room), Catherine Fanshawe , and Mary Tighe (with whom she...
Health	Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre	In 1831 the sixty-three-year-old BBBD had a fall from her horse which was serious enough to be much noticed. 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 wrote in mid July that her friend showed scarcely any traces at all of...
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...
Anthologization	Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre	Joanna Baillie included a poem by BBBD (Away, proud boy) in A Collection of Poems, Chiefly Manuscript, and from Living Authors, 1823. Baillie, Joanna, editor. A Collection of Poems, Chiefly Manuscript, and from Living Authors. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown.
Literary responses	Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre	Joanna Baillie thought this the most stage-worthy of her friend's plays, if not the best in other respects. Barbarina Charlotte, Lady Grey,. A Family Chronicle. Editor Lyster, Gertrude, John Murray. 30-1, 39
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. 1: 166
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	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. 2: 1191 Dacre's prefatory comments play down her ambition and even her skill, but she...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Anne Bannerman	The contents included odes, sonnets (including one sequence from Petrarch and another based on Goethe 's Werther, in which she speaks as the male lover of a woman, with notes relating her poems to...
Literary responses	Anne Bannerman	After her death AB was quickly forgotten. Yet literary historian Stuart Curran has recently noted the influence of her poetry on Dorothea Primrose Campbell . Critic Adriana Craciun , writing for the website Scottish Women...

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