Scott, Sir Walter. “Papers of Sir Walter Scott”. MSS 3278. 102, 3888.20, 3890. 89, 208, 261, National Library of Scotland.
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.
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Dorothea Primrose Campbell | |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Maria Porter | The young Walter Scott
was a neighbour of the Porters in Edinburgh and a childhood friend to AMP
and Jane. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 265 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge. under Jane Porter |
| Friends, Associates | Maria Riddell | In England as in Scotland MR
had a wide circle of friends. They included the artists Thomas Lawrence
and Henry Fuseli
and the writers Samuel Rogers
, Richard Sharp
, and Sir James Mackintosh
... |
| Friends, Associates | Dorothy Wordsworth | DW
's correspondents included Maria Jane Jewsbury
and Mary Ann Lamb
. She was very close to Coleridge
, who settled at Greta Hall near Keswick to be near the Wordsworths at Grasmere in June... |
| Friends, Associates | Felicia Hemans | While in Scotland she met not only Scott
and Jeffrey
, she met in person her publisher William Blackwood
, writer Anne Grant
, critic John Wilson
, and sculptor Angus Fletcher
. Lawrence, Rose. The Last Autumn at a Favorite Residence, with Other Poems. G. and J. Robinson, etc. and John Murray. 347 Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, pp. 1-315. 201 |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Eliza Bray | This brief marriage brought Anna Eliza a number of literary friendships: with Sir Walter Scott
, Amelia Opie
, Letitia Elizabeth Landon
, John Murray
, Robert Southey
, and later with Southey's second wife,... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Grant | AG
's parents were married in 1753; they moved to Glasgow shortly afterwards. Wilson, James Grant, and Anne Grant. “Preface, Memoir of Mrs. Grant”. Memoirs of an American Lady, edited by James Grant Wilson and James Grant Wilson, Books for Libraries Press, p. ix - xxxvi. xiii |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Hunt | VH
's mother was the writer Margaret (Raine) Hunt
, born on 14 October 1831. Her childhood home, Crook Hall in County Durham, was visited by Dorothy
and William Wordsworth
, John Ruskin
... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | George Eliot | One of her resources during his illness was reading to him from the works of Sir Walter Scott
. Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton. 312 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Charlotte Bury | Her second marriage shocked her friends and family, including her children. Although Bury was a clergyman from a good family, he had no fortune and was fifteen years younger than she was. Scott
called him... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Webb | MW
's mother, Sarah Alice Meredith
, claimed relationship with Sir Walter Scott
, whose surname was her birth name. She set great store by the idea of duty, but seems to have become withdrawn... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Scott | Her mother, Frances, Lady Douglas
, had had a deeply unhappy childhood, since her own mother appeared to entertain for her nothing but dislike and contempt, and treated her in a way that appears to... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothea Du Bois | This most sensational trial of the mid-century was reported in detail by the Gentleman's Magazine the following year, and used in more or less avowed fictions by Eliza Haywood
in Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Alison Cockburn | AC
was both a cousin, through her mother, and a great-aunt, through one of her sisters, of Walter Scott
. First meeting him when she was in her sixties and he was not yet six... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Trefusis | Following this initial encounter, the two formerly isolated girls bonded over shared interests in Scott
, Baudelaire
, Dumas
, Rostand
's Cyrano de Bergerac, and their own pedigrees. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 23 Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo. 72-3 Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton. 27 |
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