Joanna Baillie was born on 11 September 1762 at the manse of Bothwell, near Hamilton in Lanarkshire, Scotland, and died on 23 February 1851 at Hampstead, then a village on the northern edge of London. During her exceptionally long life, she became one of the most admired British writers of the Romantic period: a poet of acute observation, an ambitious theorist of the emotions, a dramatist who sought to renew tragedy…
“I have endeavoured to set in array, for the use of common readers, all the texts of the New Testament bearing upon a certain point of faith, leaving every one to judge for himself from the general tenor of the whole.”
Neighbourhood:
Dramatic Poets, Love Poets, Nature Poets, Romantic Poets, Scottish Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Tenderness, Joy, Longing
Hannah More was born on 2 February 1745 at Fishponds, then a village near Bristol in Gloucestershire, and died on 7 September 1833 at Clifton, Bristol. During her long life she became, in succession and sometimes simultaneously, a schoolteacher, playwright, poet, essayist, novelist, religious writer, philanthropist, educational campaigner, abolitionist, and one of the most recognizable female public intellectuals in…
“An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.”
Neighbourhood:
Augustan Poets, Devotional Poets, Political Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Joy, Peace
