On 11 May 1812 Henry Crabb Robinson
recorded in his diary meeting JB
and other women writers on a visit to Miss Benjers (Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
). In his account of this pleasant evening...
Reception
Joanna Baillie
One of these Scots songs, the humorous Fee him, father, fee him, written for her friend and fellow-author Fanny Head
of Ashfield in Devon, was early enough to be admired by Burns
.
Baillie, Joanna. “Introduction”. The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851, edited by Jennifer Breen, Manchester University Press, 1999, pp. 1-25.
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Timeline
1749: Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock published Der...