• Financially secure herself, Joanna Baillie customarily gave half her earnings from writing to charity, and engaged in many philanthropic activities.
  • Early Life and Background: Joanna Baillie was born in Bothwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland, on September 11, 1762. She came from a relatively affluent Scottish family.
  • Biographies include Margaret Sprague Carhart’s The Life and Work of Joanna Baillie (1923) and Judith Bailey Slagle’s Joanna Baillie: A Literary Life (2002).
  • Joanna Baillie Full view - 1853. ... Bibliographic information. Title. The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie ; Complete in One Volume.
  • Few women possess the faculty of construction, and Joanna Baillie was not one of these; nor had she qualities rare enough to cover the sins of a wandering story.
  • Joanna Baillie was a Scottish poet and a playwright, born as the daughter of mother Dorothea Hunter Baillie and father Rev.
  • 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.
  • Joanna Baillie was regarded as a pre-eminent woman poet in her lifetime, comparable to Sappho, and a fore-runner of nineteenth-century British women’s poetry.
  • Joanna Baillie Scotch Poetess and Dramatist 1762 – 1857 A.D. Joanna Baillie was born in Bothwell Manse, in Lanarkshire, September 11, 1762.