Joanna Baillie (1762-1851): Scottish poet and dramatist, best-known for A Series of Plays: In which it is Attempted to Delineate the Stronger Passions of the Mind (1798¬–1812), which Southey greatly admired. Baillie’s first plays and poems were published anonymously in 1790, and her authorship was not revealed until 1800. Her father, James Baillie (c. 1722–1788) was a Presbyterian Minister and Professor of Divinity at the University of Glasgow, but from 1802 she lived in Hampstead, with her sister Agnes Baillie (1760–1861), and became a familiar figure in London literary society, to which she was introduced by her aunt, the poet Anne Hunter (1742–1821; DNB). Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Lucy Aikin were neighbours and close friends, and Baillie was a regular correspondent of Walter Scott. Baillie and her sister visited Southey at Keswick in 1808, and Southey later contributed two poems (including ‘The Cataract of Lodore’) to her A Collection of Poems, Chiefly Manuscript, And From Living Authors (1823).