Life and Work of Joanna Baillie - Tapa dura

If I had to present any one to a foreigner as a model of anE nglish Gentlewoman said William Wordsworth, it would be Joanna BailH eA nd this was the same Joanna Baillie whomS ir Walter Scott called the best dramatic writer Britain had produced since the days of Shakespeare and Massinger. jA ncestry and Childhood. Joanna Baillie was born in the manse of Bothwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland, onS eptember ii, 1762. Her father was descended from an ancientS cotch family which numbered among its progenitors the national patriot, Wallace. He also claimed connection with Robert Wallace, of Jerviswood, a martyr to the cause of Scotch independence. Joanna smother, Dorothea Hunter Baillie, was descended from the second son of theL aird of A yrshire, Hunter of Hunterstone. Her girlhood had been spent at Long Calderwood, a small estate near Glasgow, which had belonged to the family for many generations. There she was married to the Reverend Mr. BaiTEB. During the early years of theirS adler, Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson 1. 386. Familiar Letters of Sir Walter Scott i. 99. Works, p. V, When not otherwise specified, details in this chapter are taken from the biographical preface to the second edition of Joanna Baillie scollected works. Paget, Life of John Hunter, pp. 22-33.
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