Mary Berry, Journal, 7 June 1809: 'Mrs Cholmley and two of her daughters and Walter Scott breakfasted with us. Shortly after came Sir G. and Lady Beaumont, Robert Walpole and Lady Louisa Stuart, and Sir W. Pepys and F. Cholmley. Somebody was to read Joanna Baillie's tragedy, "The Family Legend;" this somebody was obliged to be me, as nobody else knew her hand, or had ever seen the play. I read the first three acts, Cholmley the fourth, and I again the fifth. It had a vast effect upon Walter Scott, and one that was very pleasing, from the evident feeling of one poet from another.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Unknown
Mary Berry, Journal, 7 June 1809: 'Mrs Cholmley and two of her daughters and Walter Scott breakfasted with us. Shortly after came Sir G. and Lady Beaumont, Robert Walpole and Lady Louisa Stuart, and Sir W. Pepys and F. Cholmley. Somebody was to read Joanna Baillie's tragedy, "The Family Legend;" this somebody was obliged to be me, as nobody else knew her hand, or had ever seen the play. I read the first three acts, Cholmley the fourth, and I again the fifth. It had a vast effect upon Walter Scott, and one that was very pleasing, from the evident feeling of one poet from another.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: F. Cholmley Manuscript: Unknown
Mary Berry, Journal, 19 May 1811, on stay with Joanna Baillie at Hampstead: 'Sat by the fire the whole day. Joanna Baillie gave us her drama upon Hope to read; it is only two acts, and I was soon through it. Very poetical, and much fancy, as all her things have; but this did not equal my expectation [...] It is certainly a dramatic story, but not dramatically managed.'
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry
'Read some of Miss Bailey's plays - Tahourdin calls in the evening Shelley reads Moores journal aloud'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
'Miss Berry [...] told me [Harriet Martineau] how she found on her table, on her return from a ball, a volume of plays [Joanna Baillie's "Plays on the Passions"]; and how she kneeled on a chair to look at it, and how she read on till the servant opened the shutters, and let in the daylight of a winter morning.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
'Read the last play in the Series on the passions. The subject of it is Hatred. It is a tragedy & the title is De Montfort. There is one rather curious mistake in this play. In act I sc. 2 De Montfort says [...quotes several lines of text]. In act 3 sc. I De Montfort says again [...again quotes] [De Montfort forgets name of a character twice]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book
'Waugh (the Review-man) sent me a book the other day, with a wish and an assurance that I "would write a very elegant and spirited critique on it" - which I am not so certain of as the magistrate pretends to be, but shall attempt notwithstanding. It is poetry, by Joanna Baillie, about Wallace and Columbus and patient Griseld, and so forth. I am to begin forthwith; should have begun indeed already, but Schiller and others stand in the way.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book
'M. reads Miss Bailey's plays'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
'S. reads Bryan Edwards History of the West Indies. M. reads Ethwald and eats oranges - in the evening Shelley reads aloud the view of the French Revolution for a short time'.
[text as far as Ethwald in PBS' hand, thereafter MG]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
'In the afternoon read Miss Bailie's plays'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
'Not very well - Shelley very unwell - read de Montfort - and talk with S. in the evening read View of the French Revolution'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
[Letter 22 November 1813]
'I want to read again Miss Baillie's ''Hope'',which I thought the prettiest of her compositions ...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jessie Allen Print: Book
