The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie, Tom 1Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1999 - 536 These annotated letters present the first personal glimpse of this Scottish playwright as she wrote and lived. It documents her problems with publishers, describes her encounters with Wordsworth, Byron, Southey, Berry and other literary figures, outlines a long relationship with Scott and places an active literary woman in the historical and social setting of early to mid-nineteenth century Britain. |
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... poet Anne Home Hunter , as well as with their daughter Agnes , later Lady Campbell . Shortly after William Hunter died in 1783 , Joanna , Agnes and their mother Dorothea moved to London to be with and keep house for Dr. Matthew Baillie ...
... poet Anne Home Hunter , as well as with their daughter Agnes , later Lady Campbell . Shortly after William Hunter died in 1783 , Joanna , Agnes and their mother Dorothea moved to London to be with and keep house for Dr. Matthew Baillie ...
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... Poet had been a less learned man . ( RCS HB.ii.56c ) 21. About a girlhood theatrical experience in Glasgow , Baillie writes , I now beheld a lighted up Theatre with fine painted scenes and gay dressed Gentlemen & Ladies acting a story ...
... Poet had been a less learned man . ( RCS HB.ii.56c ) 21. About a girlhood theatrical experience in Glasgow , Baillie writes , I now beheld a lighted up Theatre with fine painted scenes and gay dressed Gentlemen & Ladies acting a story ...
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... poets Corneille , Racine , Voltaire and Molière , later adding the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher and older English ... poet Samuel Rogers , who wrote in his journal in 1791 that Joanna Baillie was " a very pretty woman with a broad ...
... poets Corneille , Racine , Voltaire and Molière , later adding the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher and older English ... poet Samuel Rogers , who wrote in his journal in 1791 that Joanna Baillie was " a very pretty woman with a broad ...
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... poet , Sotheby .... Though Miss Baillie's fame tended greatly to draw her into society , her life was passed in retirement . It was pure and moral in the highest degree , and was characterized by the most consummate integrity , kindness ...
... poet , Sotheby .... Though Miss Baillie's fame tended greatly to draw her into society , her life was passed in retirement . It was pure and moral in the highest degree , and was characterized by the most consummate integrity , kindness ...
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... poet ( DNB , 1 : 25-27 ) . See introduction and letters . Beaumont , Sir George Howland , ( 1753-1827 ) patron of art and a landscape painter himself , married Margaret Willes with whom he cultivated the society of poets and painters ...
... poet ( DNB , 1 : 25-27 ) . See introduction and letters . Beaumont , Sir George Howland , ( 1753-1827 ) patron of art and a landscape painter himself , married Margaret Willes with whom he cultivated the society of poets and painters ...
Spis treści
55 | |
To George Thomson 18041842 | 91 |
To Mary Berry 18041833? | 152 |
To William Sotheby 18041831 | 176 |
To Sir Walter Scott 18081829 | 228 |
To Anne Elliott 18091833 | 445 |
To Sir Thomas Lawrence 18121829 | 483 |
To Lady Davy 18131850? | 494 |
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