ABSTRACT
The following biographical work on Joanna Baillie began in a 1994 National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminar held at the London Public Record Office and directed by Professor Paula Backscheider. The cache of more than 800 letters in The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie (1999), which resulted from the initial research, represents the vast majority of Baillie's correspondence in American, British and Scottish repositories and provides the background for this essay and for Joanna Baillie: A Literary Life (2002). 1
