“It has been and still is, my strongest desire to add a few pieces to…” — Joanna Baillie

“It has been and still is, my strongest desire to add a few pieces to the stock of what may be called our national or permanently acting plays.”

A lifelong claim that her dramas were written for the stage, not the closet · To the Reader, Miscellaneous Plays, 1804

Joanna Baillie

About Joanna Baillie

11 September 1762–23 February 1851

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…

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