Marianne Baillie

Born Marianne Wathen in 1788, she was the daughter of actor George Wathen and later married Alexander Baillie. Writing as Marianne Baillie, she became known for both poetry and travel writing.

Her first published work was Guy of Warwick, a Legende, and Other Poems in 1817, followed by more verse in Trifles in Verse. After traveling on the Continent in 1818, she published First Impressions on a Tour upon the Continent in the Summer of 1818 in 1819, a book shaped by her travels through France, Italy, Switzerland, parts of Germany, and French Flanders.

She later spent over two years in Portugal, where she wrote letters that became Lisbon in the Years 1821, 1822, and 1823. Those books, along with her poems, reflect a writer interested in place, feeling, and the details of everyday experience. She died in 1831.