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Joanna Baillie lived many years at Hampstead, in Bolton House, on Windmill Hill, a little below the Clock House. Perhaps no person of literary distinction ever led a more secluded and unambitious life so near the metropolis. Howitt's In the society of her sister, Miss Agnes Baillie, she seemed to care but little whether the world forgot London: Hampstead. her or not. But of this forgetfulness there was no danger. Every man of pre-eminent genius delighted to do her honor. The last time I saw the poet Rogers he was returning from a call on Joanna Baillie.

Henry Crabb Robinson thus describes a visit to Joanna Baillie, in May, 1812

We [Wordsworth and Robinson] met Miss Joanna Baillie and accompanied her home. She is small in figure, and her gait is mean and shuffling, but her manners are those of a well-bred lady. She has none of the unpleasant airs too common to literary ladies. Her conversation is sensible. .. Wordsworth said of her with warmth: 'If I had to present to a foreigner any one as a model of an English gentlewoman, it would be Joanna Baillie.'

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Joanna Baillie was buried in an altar tomb surrounded by iron railings, in Hampstead Churchyard, on the southeast. side of the church, and near the gate and the churchyard wall. Within the church a mural tablet has been erected Agnes Baillie, who survived her sister ten years, lived to the great age of an hundred and one. She lies in the same grave.

to her memory.

ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD.

1743-1825.

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N 1785 Mrs. Barbauld was living with her husband at Well Walk, Hampstead; and there the Correspondence of Richardson' was edited and given to the public. Later, she occupied a house on the west side of Rosslyn Hill, Hampstead, while Mr. Barbauld, a dissenting minister, preached in the Presbyterian chapel on the High Street there. This chapel was taken down in 1828. His next charge was at Newington Green; and his chapel on the north side of the Green, built in 1708, enlarged in 1860, was still standing in 1885. Mrs. Barbauld died in Church Street, Stoke Newington, in 1825, and was buried near the southern entrance of Stoke Newington Churchyard.

RICHARD BAXTER.

1615-1691.

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'HE domestic life of Baxter was very happy, but as unsettled as the times in which he lived. He was frequently in London, and had many temporary homes in and about the city. He was married, September 10, 1662, to Margaret Charlton, -'A Breviate' of whose life he wrote, — in the Church of St. Bennet Fink, Broad Street Ward, near Finch Lane, Cornhill. This church was destroyed in the Great Fire, four years later.

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