Ragaz, Sharon. “Writing to Sir Walter: The Letters of Mary Bryan Bedingfield”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, No. 7.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Mary Bryan | Letters exchanged between MB
and Sir Walter Scott
survive for these years; the correspondence, however, may not have ended in 1827. |
| 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. 139 Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press. |
| Textual Production | Emily Gerard | At eleven or twelve EG
began to scribble in secret—poetry of course; for what youthful writer at that stage of his or her existence would stoop to prose! Most of her poems were elegies on... |
| Textual Production | Anne Marsh | Her prefatory praise of Sir Walter Scott
for having made the English understand Scotland, and of Charles Lever
for only now beginning to make the English understand Ireland, has led careless readers to suppose that... |
| Textual Production | Mary Bryan | MB
sent Scott
, in a letter, a poem entitled The Village Maid. Ragaz, Sharon. “Writing to Sir Walter: The Letters of Mary Bryan Bedingfield”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, No. 7. |
| Textual Production | Catherine Fanshawe | According to Sir Walter Scott
, CF
and her sisters were responsible for the first publication, in 1829, of the memoirs of their seventeenth-century ancestor Ann Fanshawe
. He described it as a new publishd... |
| Textual Production | Christian Isobel Johnstone | CIJ
published The Cook and Housewife's Manual under the pseudonym Margaret Dods, in honour of Walter Scott
's character from the Cleikum Inn in St. Ronan's Well. Meg Dods from St. Ronan's Well... |
| Textual Production | Amelia Opie | At about the same date she published several Recollections of an Authoress in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal. Each of these dealt with a particular author she had known, including Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis
and Sir Walter Scott
. Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. The Collected Poems of Amelia Alderson Opie, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, p. xxxvii - lxx. lv |
| Textual Production | Anna Seward | AS
, Poetical Works, was posthumously published, edited at her express desire by Walter Scott
(at this date a famous poet but not yet a novelist). Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 3d ser. 20 (1810): 448 |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Isabella Spence | In an AdvertisementEIS
claimed that she wrote this book before the appearance (in 1826) of two other historical novels about the Civil War period, Brambletye House by Horace Smith
and Woodstock by Sir Walter Scott |
| Textual Production | Mary Bryan | MB
(now Bedingfield) accompanied her last surviving letter to Scott
with a poem entitled Return my Muse, which laments her final decline into blindness. Ragaz, Sharon. “Writing to Sir Walter: The Letters of Mary Bryan Bedingfield”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, No. 7. |
| Textual Production | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | Some time after July 1814 SSW
published, bearing all three of her names, Waverley; or, The Castle of Mac Iver: A Highland Tale, of sixty years since. The title-page explained that this work was... |
| Textual Production | Anna Seward | AS
wrote her first surviving letter to the young Walter Scott
, with a detailed critique of his Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, of which he had sent her the first volume (not the... |
| Textual Production | Lady Eleanor Butler | Sarah Ponsonby bequeathed the journals to Caroline Hamilton
, and Harriet Pigott
therefore supposed that they were written by Ponsonby
. Butler, Lady Eleanor et al. “Foreword and Editorial Materials”. The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton, edited by Eva Mary Bell, Macmillan, p. vii - viii; various pages. vii |
| Textual Production | Christian Isobel Johnstone | She published this anonymously. Another edition of the same year has the Edinburgh imprint only. She claims that the first half of the work was set up in print before she had seen Scott
's... |
Timeline
By 20 February 1908: K. L. Montgomery dedicated their historical...
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By 20 February 1908
1920: The number of Miners' Institutes (which included...
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1920
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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