Surname: Baillie (née Wathen) Forename(s): Marianne b. 1788. d. 2 February 1831. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Travel writer and poet. Née Wathen. Possibly born in Jamaica; baptized in Suffolk.
Married Alexander Baillie on 9 September 1815 (a merchant and former slave owner).
Went on a “Grand Tour” of Europe with her husband in 1818. Lived in Portugal with
him from 1821, returning to London in 1823. Author of Guy of Warwick, and Other Poems (1817), First Impressions of a Tour Upon the Continent (1819), Lisbon in the Years 1821, 1822, and 1823 (1824), Trifles in Verse (1822). Biographical information: ODNB. (SP, JH, AC)