Sir Walter Scott

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Standard Name: Scott, Sir Walter
Birth Name: Walter Scott
Titled: Sir Walter Scott
Nickname: The Great Unknown
Used Form: author of Kenilworth
The remarkable career of Walter Scott began with a period as a Romantic poet (the leading Romantic poet in terms of popularity) before he went on to achieve even greater popularity as a novelist, particularly for his historical fiction and Scottish national tales. His well-earned fame in both these genres of fiction has tended to create the impression that he originated them, whereas in fact women novelists had preceded him in each.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Reception Joanna Baillie
Sarah Siddons , who starred in the play, much admired it.
Dowd, Maureen A. “’By the Delicate Hand of a Female’: Melodramatic Mania and Joanna Baillie’s Spectacular Tragedies”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
9
, No. 4, pp. 469-00.
480
But JB felt that reviewers cooled towards it once they knew the author was an unknown woman. John any-body would have stood higher...
Reception Celia Moss
Galchinsky suggests that in Westernising their tales the Mosses sought to engender greater sympathy from non-Jewish readers, a motive the Athenæum also acknowledges. Galchinsky argues further that the sisters' appropriation of the romance genre, in...
Reception Mary Bryan
The Critical Review gave a couple of paragraphs to the collection, praising its soft and genuine sadness, the easy and unpremeditated . . . singularly graceful language, and the refined, enthusiastic, and cultivated mind
Ragaz, Sharon. “Writing to Sir Walter: The Letters of Mary Bryan Bedingfield”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, No. 7.
there...
Reception Margaret Holford
It is clear from her correspondence with Joanna Baillie how much Margaret Holford the younger longed for success, and how much persistent energy she devoted to pursuing it. When in 1837-8 John Gibson Lockhart published...
Reception Felicia Hemans
The Domestic Affections was not reviewed, but FH was slowly gaining recognition. In 1815 Walter Scott published in the Edinburgh Annual Register a poem by her inspired by his novel Waverley.
Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Letters, Reception Materials, edited by Susan J. Wolfson, Princeton University Press, p. xiii - xxix; various pages.
xxii, xxxv
Reception Anna Eliza Bray
Later in life, she was sometimes referred to as the female Walter Scott.
Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland.
In his History of the English Novel, Ernest Baker dubbed her a modest imitator of Scott.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
116: 50
Reception Anne Grant
AG 's reputation was such (after the publication of the Memoirs of an American Lady) that she was one of those confidently stated to be the author of Scott 's Waverley when that novel...
Reception Felicia Hemans
FH 's circulation in her lifetime rivalled that of her most prominent male contemporaries. With sales of about 18,000 volumes, she outsold Coleridge and Wordsworth , if not Scott and Byron . She proved, as...
Reception Emma Robinson
Henry Fothergill Chorley in his Athenæum review called the novel a tale of terror and adventure, just right for Christmas reading.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
844 (1843): 1159
The review is listed as by Chorley. Henry's brother John Rutter Chorley
Reception Emily Frederick Clark
From EFC 's letters to the Royal Literary Fund it would seem that she entertained a very modest estimate of her own talents. Late in her career, for example, she calls her own works very...
Reception Lady Charlotte Bury
Walter Scott used verses by her to head a chapter in The Heart of Midlothian, 1818.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
57
Reception Alice Dixon Le Plongeon
The The Brooklyn Daily Eagle likened its style to that of Sir Walter Scott 's The Lady of the Lake. This notice is more summary than review, but it notes: So far as possible...
Residence Alison Cockburn
As a widow living in EdinburghAC was, according to Sarah Tytler and Jean L. Watson , a lively cultural influence, serving as a connecting-link between the Edinburgh of Allan Ramsay and Burns , and...
Residence Edna Lyall
EL moved from Lincoln to Eastbourne in 1884
Escreet, J. M. The Life of Edna Lyall. Longmans, Green and Co.
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with her sister and her brother-in-law the Rev. Hampden Jameson . Their house in College Road, Eastbourne, was a picturesque gabled, red-tiled house, covered with...
Textual Features Sarah Green
The plot owes something to Charlotte Lennox 's Female Quixote. The father of Green's heroine has lived through many crazes for novelists: first Burney , then Radcliffe , then Owenson , then Rosa Matilda

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