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- Born:
- Sept. 11, 1762, Hamilton, Lanark, Scot.
- Died:
- Feb. 23, 1851, Hampstead, London (aged 88)
- Notable Works:
- “Fugitive Verses”
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Joanna Baillie
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Joanna Baillie (born Sept. 11, 1762, Hamilton, Lanark, Scot.—died Feb. 23, 1851, Hampstead, London) was a poet and prolific dramatist whose plays, mainly in verse, were highly praised at a period when serious drama was in decline. Her Plays on the Passions, 3 vol. (1798–1812), brought her fame but have long been forgotten. She is remembered, rather, as the friend of her countryman Sir Walter Scott and for a handful of lyrics in Fugitive Verses (1790), her first published work, that catch the authentic note of Lowland Scots folk song.
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