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The contents of this selection, compiled in consultation with eighteen leading specialists in the field, includes Baillie's plays - De Montfort, Basil, A Family Legend and The Martyr, together with selected poetry and criticisms. The Scottish dramatist and poet Joanna Baillie (1762-1851) is one of the most important figures to have emerged from the recent redefinition of the Romantic canon. Highly regarded by her literary contemporaries, her Plays on the Passions were widely appreciated and extremely influential during the mid-nineteenth century, and her 'Introductory Discourse' has been seen as an anticipation of Wordsworth's 1800 preface to Lyrical Ballads.