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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Textual Production Grace Aguilar
GA 's early historical romance in the style of Scott , The Days of Bruce, was published posthumously by her mother .
Galchinsky, Michael. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer. Wayne State University Press.
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Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press.
Friends, Associates Grace Aguilar
Bowles and her circle likened the young woman who enjoyed dancing and singing to Walter Scott 's Flora McIvor.
Textual Features Grace Aguilar
GA 's representation of Jews and Jewish history was profoundly influenced by novelists, pre-eminently Walter Scott , and by historians including Americans Washington Irving and William H. Prescott .
Ragussis, Michael. Figures of Conversion: "The Jewish Question" and English National Identity. Duke University Press.
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Intertextuality and Influence Grace Aguilar
The central character is the undowered girl Florence Leslie—so called because of her birth in Italy—whose high-minded principles have been fuelled by indiscriminate
Aguilar, Grace. Woman’s Friendship. D. Appleton and Company.
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reading in history, poetry, and romance at an early age...
Intertextuality and Influence Grace Aguilar
One of her source texts was John Stockdale 's The History of the Inquisition, which like other English books on the topic was more concerned to demonstrate the dangers of Catholicism than the plight...
Intertextuality and Influence Grace Aguilar
The martyr named in the title is a Spanish Jew named Marie, who refuses to convert despite her love for an English Catholic man, and the further inducements represented by the torture of the Inquisition
Friends, Associates Lucy Aikin
LA , dining with Walter Scott , was pleased that though she herself went unnoticed, Scott devoted considerable attention to her aunt Barbauld .
Aikin, Lucy. Memoirs, Miscellanies and Letters. Editor Le Breton, Philip Hemery, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green.
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Friends, Associates Cecil Frances Alexander
The writers whom CFA most admired during her childhood were Scott , Gray , and, to a lesser extent, Wordsworth and Byron .
Alexander, Cecil Frances. “Preface”. Poems, edited by William Alexander, Macmillan, p. v - xxix.
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Around 1833, Cecil Frances Humphreys came into contact with a significant...
Travel Cecil Frances Alexander
During her youth, the future CFA traveled to Edinburgh where she met Sir Walter Scott , and watched the famous Scottish landscape painter, Rev. John Thomson , brother to her uncle Thomas Thomson , at...
Literary responses Jane Austen
Sir Walter Scott recorded in his journal on 14 March 1826 a judgement which has become famous: read again, and for the third time at least, Miss Austen's very finely written novel of Pride and...
Literary responses Jane Austen
Emma received eight reviews in English: more than any other Austen novel. Murray sounded apologetic as he invited Walter Scott to review it (It wants incident and romance does it not?).
Tomalin, Claire. Jane Austen: A Life. Penguin Viking.
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For...
Intertextuality and Influence Ruby M. Ayres
Like her later novels, Richard Chatterton, V.C. is a courtship novel ending happily in marriage. Published only a year into the First World War, it is also an examination, albeit a shallow one, of...
Friends, Associates Joanna Baillie
JB first met Walter Scott (a very new literary celebrity); she really got to know him by March 1808, when she visited him at 39 Castle Street, Edinburgh.
Carhart, Margaret S. The Life and Work of Joanna Baillie. Archon Books.
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Textual Production Joanna Baillie
JB composed, at Hampstead, Lines on the Death of Sir Walter Scott.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
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names Joanna Baillie
Walter Scott teased her about her taking up in her fifties the style of Mrs. (This had earlier been universal for older unmarried women, as a mark of respect; it was now becoming limited...

Timeline

12 March to 25 May 1644: In her husband's absence the royalist Countess...

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12 March to 25 May 1644

In her husband 's absence the royalist Countess of Derby , born a Huguenot Frenchwoman, successfully stood a siege at Lathom House in Lancashire (a towered and moated building).

February 1809: The Quarterly Review was founded....

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February 1809

The Quarterly Review was founded.

1813: The Shetland poet Margaret Chalmers (born...

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1813

The Shetland poetMargaret Chalmers (born at Lerwick in 1858 and left in poverty with her sisters and aged mother after the death of their brother William at the battle of Trafalgar) published her Poems...

By January 1821: Ballantyne's Novelists Library began publication;...

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By January 1821

Ballantyne's Novelists Library began publication; it was completed in 1824.

14-29 August 1822: George IV visited Edinburgh (first reigning...

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14-29 August 1822

George IV visited Edinburgh (first reigning monarch to do so since the 1630s); Sir Walter Scott laid on a lavish display of Scottish national pride.

Mid 1820s: Harsh economic conditions caused two-thirds...

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Mid 1820s

Harsh economic conditions caused two-thirds of established British publishing firms to crash: authors were ruined, like Sir Walter Scott , by the bankruptcy of Constable and Ballantyne in Edinburgh.

September 1826: The conservative Quarterly Review, discussing...

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September 1826

The conservative Quarterly Review, discussing Sir Walter Scott 's Lives of the Novelists, omitted all mention of any female writer.

1827: Constable's Miscellany, a prolific series...

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1827

Constable's Miscellany, a prolific series of affordable books, was established.

3 May 1834: William Harrison Ainsworth published his...

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3 May 1834

William Harrison Ainsworth published his hugely successful first novel, Rookwood.

26 September 1835: Lucia di Lammermoor, probably the most famous...

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26 September 1835

Lucia di Lammermoor, probably the most famous opera by Gaetano Donizetti , had its first performance at Naples; its first appearance in London came three years later.

9 August 1838: The Hampstead circulating library, intended...

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9 August 1838

The Hampstead circulating library, intended for the middling and lower ranks, which had stocked no novels on principle except those of Scott and Edgeworth , found these were borrowed so much more often than...

August-September 1846: William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Rebecca...

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August-September 1846

William Makepeace Thackeray 's novelRebecca and Rowena, a sequel to Scott 's Ivanhoe, was serialised in Fraser's Magazine.

1882: Walter Scott Publishing Company was established...

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1882

Walter Scott Publishing CompanySir Walter Scott was established out of the bankrupt Tyne Publishing Company in Paternoster Square, London.

27 June 1894: Mudie's Circulating Library and bookseller...

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27 June 1894

Mudie's Circulating Library and bookseller W. H. Smith together announced they would not pay more than four shillings a volume for novels; this forced publishers to abandon triple-decker format, and quickly led to its replacement...

1904: Sir Walter Raleigh, author of the literary...

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1904

Sir Walter Raleigh , author of the literary historyThe English Novel, 1894, moved from Glasgow to become the first Professor of English Literature at Oxford .

Texts

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Dramatic Works of Goethe. Translators Swanwick, Anna and Sir Walter Scott, H. G. Bohn, 1851.
Grant, Douglas et al. “Introduction”. Private Letters of the Seventeenth Century, Clarendon Press, 1947, pp. 7-54.
Scott, Sir Walter. Ivanhoe. A. Constable, 1820.
Scott, Sir Walter. Kenilworth. A. Constable, 1821.
Scott, Sir Walter. Marmion. A. Constable; W. Miller and J. Murray, 1808.
Scott, Sir Walter. Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies; Longman and Rees, 1803.
Scott, Sir Walter. “Papers of Sir Walter Scott”. MSS 3278. 102, 3888.20, 3890. 89, 208, 261, National Library of Scotland, 1817.
Scott, Sir Walter et al. Private Letters of the Seventeenth Century. Clarendon, 1947.
Scott, Sir Walter. St. Ronan’s Well. A. Constable; Hurst, Robinson, 1824.
Scott, Sir Walter. Tales of My Landlord, Second Series. A. Constable, 1818.
Scott, Sir Walter. Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. A. Constable, 1819.
Scott, Sir Walter. The Journal of Sir Walter Scott. Editor Anderson, W. E. K., Clarendon, 1972.
Scott, Sir Walter. The Lady of the Lake. J. Ballantyne; Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and W. Miller, 1810.
Scott, Sir Walter. The Lay of the Last Minstrel. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; A. Constable, 1805.
Scott, Sir Walter. The Letters of Sir Walter Scott. Editor Grierson, Sir Herbert John Clifford, Constable, 1937.
Seward, Anna. The Poetical Works of Anna Seward. Editor Scott, Sir Walter, J. Ballantyne, 1810.
Scott, Sir Walter. Waverley. A. Constable; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown.
Scott, Sir Walter. Waverley. Editor Lamont, Claire, Oxford University Press, 1986.