About Joanna Baillie:
Joanna Baillie was a Scottish poet and dramatist. Baillie was very well known during her lifetime and, though a woman, intended her plays not for the closet but for the stage. Admired both for her literary powers and her sweetness of disposition, she hosted a literary society in her cottage at Hampstead.[citation needed] Baillie died at the age of 88, her faculties remaining unimpaired to the last.