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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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| Education | Rebecca Harding Davis | Influenced by her mother's linguistic virtuosity and her father's storytelling and love of classic literature, Rebecca grew up well acquainted with early American history (whose evidence lay close at hand) and with the stories... |
| Education | Alice Meynell | In the summer of 1852 Elizabeth and Alice Thompson (later AM
) began their education under their father's instruction. Recording her daughters' lessons, Christiana Thompson writes, Dear little angels do their writing . .... |
| Education | Pearl S. Buck | Mr Kung despised fiction and the Sydenstricker library contained only the supposedly factual Plutarch
's Lives and Foxe
's Book of Martyrs, but Pearl read fiction avidly in both Chinese and English, devouring Shakespeare |
| 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... |
| Education | Charlotte Dempster | In early adulthood CD
continued to study on her own: she read the poetry of Sir Walter Scott
and often spent her mornings reading history, writing, or drawing. |
| Education | Jean Ingelow | In later years she expanded her reading to include Shakespeare
, Southey
, Scott
, Wordsworth
, and Tennyson
. She also read Henry Drummond
's Natural Law in the Spiritual World and hisTropical Africa and Charles Lamb
's Letters. Some Recollections of Jean Ingelow and Her Early Friends. Kennikat Press. 150-1 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. Peters, Maureen. Jean Ingelow: Victorian Poetess. Boydell. 23 |
| Education | Frances Hodgson Burnett | Her next school was the Select Seminary for Young Ladies and Gentlemen (a school that counted its pupils in single figures and was run by a trio of very young sisters). Frances was good at... |
| Education | Queen Victoria | Princess Alexandrina Victoria
had begun reading her first novel, Sir Walter Scott
's Bride of Lammermoor; she remained an avid reader of novels throughout her life. Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row. 43 |
| Education | Florence Dixie | Lady Florence was at first educated at home in Scotland. After a first, unsuccessful attempt to place her in a convent she had, in France, an Irish Catholic governess whom she calls Miss O'Leary... |
| Education | Harriet Beecher Stowe | HBS
's domestic training consisted of learning knitting, sewing, and Presbyterian and Episcopal church catechisms from an aunt and grandmother who were skilled at weaving and embroidery. Hedrick, Joan. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. Oxford University Press. 12-13 |
| Education | Lydia Maria Child | At fifteen she read Paradise Lost (with her brother's encouragement) and was delighted with its grandeur and sublimity, but was bold enough to criticise Milton
for assert[ing] the superiority of his own sex in rather... |
| Education | Charlotte Yonge | CY
also learnt much on her own through reading widely in history, and classical and contemporary literature. She greatly admired Walter Scott
. Hayter, Alethea. Charlotte Yonge. Northcote House. 38-9 |
| Education | Frances Browne | FB
's blindness meant that she did not have a formal education, and she very early felt the want of it. Browne, Frances. The Star of Attéghéi; the Vision of Schwartz; and Other Poems. Edward Moxon. ix |
| Education | Carola Oman | The children's great delight was their mother reading aloud: theLamb
s' Tales from Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott
's poems, William Edmonstoune Aytoun
's Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, 1865, Mary Martha Sherwood |
| Education | Georgiana Fullerton | She could read by four-and-a-half, and recalls an early admiration for hymns by Anna Letitia Barbauld
and Maria Edgeworth
. Julius Cæsar, the first Shakespearean
play that she saw, left a lasting impression. Later... |
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The number of Miners' Institutes
(which included Miners' Libraries
) increased following the decision regularly to supplement the levy financing them from the national Miners' Welfare Fund
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