Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
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 Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Features | J. S. Anna Liddiard | An advertisement apologises for William's temerity in handling a topic (the battle of Waterloo) already touched by a Master's hand (that of Walter Scott
). The table of contents names JSAL
's poem as... |
Leisure and Society | Eliza Lynn Linton | In London, Eliza Lynn drank in artistic life. She championed the singing of Jenny Lind
against those who preferred Alboni or Malibran. She performed for Samuel Laurence
the role of uninformed art critic or foolometer... |
Leisure and Society | Janet Little | A near-contemporary note tucked into a copy of JL
's poetical works describes her this way: she was a person above the usual size and as one said to me very graphically who knew her,... |
Education | Maria Theresa Longworth | MTL
was educated in France at an Ursuline convent school. Rosenman, Ellen Bayuk. Unauthorized Pleasures. Cornell University Press. 137 Erickson, Arvel B., and John R. McCarthy. “The Yelverton Case: Civil Legislation and Marriage”. Victorian Studies, Vol. 14 , pp. 275-91. 275 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Theresa Longworth | Set during the Crimean War, the novel recounts the tragic love affair between the young nurse Thierna and Captain Cyril Etherington. Rosenman, Ellen Bayuk. Unauthorized Pleasures. Cornell University Press. 164 Longworth, Maria Theresa. Martyrs to Circumstance. R. Bentley. 95 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Loudon | In prose the opening tale, Julia de Clifford, presents a well-meaning but thoughtless and impulsive heroine who progresses from dressing up as a ghost to scare the servants, to plunging her lover into despair... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Loudon | This strikingly inventive and ingenious tale seems to owe a good deal to Mary Shelley
's Frankenstein (though Shelley receives no tribute in passing, as do R. B. Sheridan
, Byron
, and especially Scott |
Education | Edna Lyall | Since the cousin with whom she shared lessons was three years older, Ada Ellen read a good many books at that time which must have been far beyond . . . [her] powers. At twelve... |
Residence | Edna Lyall | EL
moved from Lincoln to Eastbourne in 1884 Escreet, J. M. The Life of Edna Lyall. Longmans, Green and Co. 53 |
Textual Features | Rose Macaulay | RM
's editor Constance Babington Smith
describes this as a sombre story. Macaulay, Rose. Letters to a Friend from Rose Macaulay 1950-1952. Editor Babington Smith, Constance, Fontana. 14 |
Textual Features | Agnes Maule Machar | |
Education | Anne Manning | AM
was taught at home by both her mother and her father, with the help of masters for special accomplishments, Oliphant, Margaret et al. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria’s Reign. Hurst and Blackett. 211 |
Education | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | Taught by governesses until she was thirteen, Margaret Haig Thomas learned to read at about five. She was taught German and French, and she also learned Welsh as a child but did not retain it... |
Wealth and Poverty | Anne Marsh | Their move back to England was facilitated by a legacy of £5,000 from Anne's father. Heath-Caldwell, J. J. “Letters, References and Notes (1780-1874), Relating to James Caldwell and Anne Marsh (Marsh-Caldwell)”. Ancestors and Relatives of JJ Heath-Caldwell. 1839-1842 |
Literary responses | Anne Marsh | Chorley
's Athenæum review is remarkable for two things: for the vehemence with which he praised the novel's plotting and the climactic scene of preparations for the wedding (which he quoted at length, only regretting... |
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