Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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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Reception | Alice Dixon Le Plongeon | The The Brooklyn Daily Eagle likened its style to that of Sir Walter Scott
's The Lady of the Lake. This notice is more summary than review, but it notes: So far as possible... |
Reception | Emily Frederick Clark | From EFC
's letters to the Royal Literary Fund
it would seem that she entertained a very modest estimate of her own talents. Late in her career, for example, she calls her own works very... |
Reception | Jane Porter | The ODNB judged the London scenes (where the hero is living privately in London and trying to make a living out of selling his painting) the most convincing in the book. |
Reception | Carol Ann Duffy | The year following her Selected Poems, CAD
won the Lannan Literary Award in the USA, and her work was included in the second volume of Penguin Modern Poets. A decade after that,... |
Reception | Catherine Fanshawe | Anne Grant reported that Francis Jeffrey
was much struck by a critique of Scott
's The Lady of the Lake (published months earlier) that CF
had written in a letter to Grant. Grant, Anne. Memoir and Correspondence of Mrs. Grant of Laggan. Editor Grant, John Peter, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 1: 270 |
Reception | Elizabeth Siddal | He also nicknamed her Ida after Tennyson
's heroine in The Princess, and compared her pride to that of Scott
's Flora MacIvor. Marsh, Jan. Elizabeth Siddal, 1829-1862: Pre-Raphaelite Artist. The Ruskin Gallery. 14 |
Reception | Joanna Baillie | Sarah Siddons
, who starred in the play, much admired it. Dowd, Maureen A. “’By the Delicate Hand of a Female’: Melodramatic Mania and Joanna Baillie’s Spectacular Tragedies”. European Romantic Review, Vol. 9 , No. 4, pp. 469-00. 480 |
Reception | Celia Moss | Galchinsky
suggests that in Westernising their tales the Mosses sought to engender greater sympathy from non-Jewish readers, a motive the Athenæum also acknowledges. Galchinsky argues further that the sisters' appropriation of the romance genre, in... |
Reception | Mary Bryan | The Critical Review gave a couple of paragraphs to the collection, praising its soft and genuine sadness, the easy and unpremeditated . . . singularly graceful language, and the refined, enthusiastic, and cultivated mind Ragaz, Sharon. “Writing to Sir Walter: The Letters of Mary Bryan Bedingfield”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, No. 7. |
Reception | Margaret Holford | It is clear from her correspondence with Joanna Baillie how much Margaret Holford the younger longed for success, and how much persistent energy she devoted to pursuing it. When in 1837-8 John Gibson Lockhart
published... |
Reception | Felicia Hemans | The Domestic Affections was not reviewed, but FH
was slowly gaining recognition. In 1815 Walter Scott
published in the Edinburgh Annual Register a poem by her inspired by his
novel Waverley. Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Letters, Reception Materials, edited by Susan J. Wolfson, Princeton University Press, p. xiii - xxix; various pages. xxii, xxxv |
Reception | Anna Eliza Bray | Later in life, she was sometimes referred to as the female Walter Scott. Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 116: 50 |
Residence | Alison Cockburn | As a widow living in EdinburghAC
was, according to Sarah Tytler
and Jean L. Watson
, a lively cultural influence, serving as a connecting-link between the Edinburgh of Allan Ramsay
and Burns
, and... |
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 |
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