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Joanna Baillie
(1762-1851)

Active: 1782-1851 in Scotland, Britain, Europe

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  • Active In: Scotland, Britain, Europe
  • Born In: Scotland, Britain, Europe
  • Activity: Poet, Playwright

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Engraving by Henry Robinson after John James Masquerier, 1876-77, courtesy The Walter Scott Digital Archive, Edinburgh University Library.

There is a tension between Joanna Baillie’s image as a reserved, gentle and devout Scottish woman and the representation of explosive, at times violent, passions in her poetry and plays. In a letter of April 2, 1817, Byron wrote, “When Voltaire was asked why no woman has ever writ

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First published 12 November 2001


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