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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Baillie, Joanna |
 | | There is a tension between Joanna Baillie’s image as a reserved, gentle and devout Scottish woman and the representation of explosive, at times violent, passions in her poetry and plays. |
 | | First, in 1768, James Baillie was transferred to the collegiate church of Hamilton, on the banks of the Clyde, then, in 1772, Joanna was sent to boarding school in Glasgow and in 1776 her father was appointed Professor of Divinity at the University of Glasgow. |
 | | During her lifetime, Joanna Baillie was best known for her plays, which were popular in print in the United States during the nineteenth century, produced on stages in London, Liverpool, Edinburgh and Dublin, sometimes as melodramas or operas, and even translated into Senegalese in the 1830s. |
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