Joanna Baillie

Baillie, daughter of a minister, was born on 11 September 1762 at Bothwell, Lanarkshire. Her father died in 1778; in 1784 the family went to live in London with a relative. Baillie's first poetry collection, published anonymously in 1790, was called "Fugitive Pieces" (and has no connection with the novel by Ann Michaels!). She enjoyed a great reputation as a dramatist, and was praised by Sir Walter Scott. "The Family Legend" (published 1870) was produced in Edinburgh in 1810 with a prologue by Scott. Baillie died in London on 23 February 1851.AC

Plays of Passion (1798); Fugitive Pieces (1790); Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters (1821); A Collection of Poems (1823); The Martyr (1826); The Bride (1828); A View of the General Tenor of the New Testament (1831); Lines on the Death of Sir Walter Scott (1832); Miscellaneous Plays (1834); Dramas, 3 vols. (1836); Dramatic and Poetical Works (1836); The Family Legend (1870).

Joanna Baillie

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