Joanna Baillie
Playwright, Author
1762 – 1851
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Who was Joanna Baillie?
Joanna Baillie was a Scottish poet and dramatist. Baillie was very well known during her lifetime and, though a woman, intended her plays not for the closet but for the stage. Admired both for her literary powers and her sweetness of disposition, she hosted a literary society in her cottage at Hampstead. Baillie died at the age of 88, her faculties remaining unimpaired to the last.
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- Born
- Sep 11, 1762
Bothwell - Siblings
- Nationality
- Scotland
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Lived in
- Hamilton
- Died
- Feb 23, 1851
Hampstead
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on July 23, 2013
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