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FURTHER READING

Biography

Carhart, Margaret Sprague. The Life and Work of Joanna Baillie. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1923, 215 p.

Comprehensive, authoritative biography and overview of Baillie's works.

Criticism

Brigham, Linda. "Aristocratic Monstrosity and Sublime Femininity in De Monfort." SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 43, no. 3 (summer 2003): 701-18.

Examines Baillie's theories regarding the emotions, as stated in her "Introductory Discourse" to the first volume of Plays on the Passions, and compares them to the theories of Edmund Burke to illustrate how "they relate to political and feminist topics in the 1790s and early nineteenth century."

Burroughs, Catherine B. "English Romantic Women Writers and Theatre Theory: Joanna Baillie's Prefaces to the Plays on the Passions." In Re-Visioning...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Primary Sources
   1. Joanna Baillie (Essay Date 1798)
4. General Commentary
   1. E. J. Clery (Essay Date 2000)
5. Title Commentary
   1. Plays on the Passions
   2. Witchcraft
6. Further Reading