Joanna Bailey ( born Joanna Baillie , September 11, 1762 , Boswell , near Glasgow - February 23, 1851 , Hampstead ) is a Scottish poet and romantic playwright.
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| Occupation | playwright , poet |
| Years of creativity | 1790 - 1849 |
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Biography
His father is a Presbyterian priest, a professor of theology at the University of Glasgow , and his mother is from a family of hereditary physicians. Sister Matthew Bailey , a famous English doctor and scientist. From the age of 10 she studied in Glasgow, showing abilities for drawing, music and mathematics, but to the greatest extent - to literature and stage art. Since 1784, Joanna with her mother and sister (father had passed away by then) settled in London . Through her aunt, the mistress of the literary salon, Joanna entered the literary society of London, met Fanny Burney , Elizabeth Carter and others. She began to write poems and dramas.
In 1802, Joanna Bailey moved to Hampstead. After the death of her mother, Joanne and her sister formed a literary and scientific society around them, Walter Scott became a friend and correspondent of the writer, highly appreciating her poems and dramas, calling her “Scottish Shakespeare” and repeatedly using Bailey’s works in epigraphs to his novels (Bailey’s most famous play "Family Legend" appeared in 1810 with a preface by W. Scott). A few weeks before her death, the volume went out of print, in which everything she wrote was collected ( 1851 ).
Recognition
Bailey's poems, songs and dramas were famous. At 10 of her poems, Beethoven wrote music. Her plays were played by the largest actors of the era - Sarah Siddons , Edmund Keane , John Philip Kemble . In recent years, interest in her theater, marked by romantic Gothic, has been noticeably growing.
Lifetime editions
Poems
- Poems: Wherein it is Attempted to Describe Certain Views of Nature and of Rustic Manners ( 1790 )
- Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters ( 1821 )
- Fugitive Verses ( 1840 )
Dramas
- Plays on the Passions (3 vols., 1798 - 1812 )
- Miscellaneous Plays ( 1804 )
- Dramatic Poetry (3 vols., 1836 )
Collected Works
- Dramatic and Poetical Works ( 1851 )
Latest editions
- The Dramatic and Poetical Works. New York: Georg Olms, 1976 (facsimile of 1851 edition)
- The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie 1762-1851 / Jennifer Breen, ed. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1999
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ 1 2 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography / C. Matthew - Oxford : OUP , 2004.
- ↑ https://books.google.ca/books?id=uoG5DhOF90kC&pg=PA64&dq=Joanna+Baillie+february+1851&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjiu9mnl_ThAhVCUK0KHS20Aifjejfjna_fjna_fj
- ↑ https://books.google.ca/books?id=IHJAAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR5&dq=Joanna+Baillie+september+1762&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi8mf6Nl_ThAhVP5awKHaZfCTMQ6AEone%&=20BeIfleet = 2020
Literature
- Carhart MS The Life and Work of Joanna Baillie. New Haven: Yale UP, 1923
- Burrougs CB Closet stages: Joanna Baillie and the theater theory of British romantic women writers. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997.
- Bailey Slagle J. Joanna Baillie, a literary life. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson UP; London: Associated UP, 2002
- Armstrong I. Joanna Baillie, Byron and satanic drama. Nottingham: School of English Studies, University of Nottingham, 2003
Links
- Writer Page
- Annotated Bibliography
- Poems on line
- Bailey Poetry Translations at the Language Store