Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
Though her fascinating, good-hearted, but free-thinking, twenty-year-old, student Baron goes in for solitary rambles like his original (Childe Harold), this habit is less emphasised than his poetry. His verses are not wistful or Romantic but...
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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...
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Elizabeth Fenton
Fenton sets out to paint a a familiar picture of the everyday occurrences, manners, and habits of life of persons undistinguished either by wealth or fame
Fenton, Elizabeth. The Journal of Mrs. Fenton. Editor Lawrence, Sir Henry, Edward Arnold.
1-2
in British India. But this is largely unfulfilled...
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Susan Ferrier
SF
only published under the condition that she remained anonymous, hiding her authorship for fear that she would be condemned as unladylike. If I was suspected of being accessory to such foul deeds my brothers...
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Catherine Hutton
CH
anonymously supplied materials for the memoir of Robert Bage
that appeared in volume 9 of Scott
's Ballantyne's Novelists' Library; catalogues list the prefatory notices as by Scott.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
1 (1846): 436
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
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John Buchan
His later biographies include Sir Walter Scott, 1932, and Oliver Cromwell, 1934. His later essay collections include A Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys, 1922 (which relates among other things the story...
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Maria Riddell
MR
penned a poem on Walter Scott
's home (at Lasswade near Melrose Abbey); this may be the last poetry that she wrote.
MacNaughton, Angus. Burns’ Mrs Riddell. A Biography. Volturna Press.
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers.
1: 91
She submitted it in manuscript to Samuel Taylor Coleridge
for criticism and suggestions. He suggested some cuts, most of which she happily agreed to...
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George Eliot
A notebook surviving from GE
's schooldays contains (besides such items as poems copied from annuals) an essay on Affectation and Conceit, which sketches the character of a vain woman in a tone of...
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Margaret Forster
MF
published The Bride of Lowther Fell, A Romance: the word romance, echoing Sir Walter Scott
's The Bride of Lammermoor (1819), suggests the gothic, or rather the mock-gothic.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(23 October 1980): 15
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Anna Seward
Late in life she edited a juvenile journal, which however Walter Scott
chose not to print.
Barnard, Teresa. Oral communication with Isobel Grundy.
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Carola Oman
CO
published her final biography, The Wizard of the North, The Life of Sir Walter Scott.
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.
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Mary Fortune
Although stories in Memoirs of an Australian Police Officer and Adventures of an Australian Mounted Trooper first appeared without attribution, a number of them were soon re-issued under his own name by James Skipp Borlase
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Lady Anne Barnard
The words were printed anonymously in the second edition of Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, edited by David Herd
, 1776. LAB
did not admit her authorship until 1823, when she confided her secret...
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Mary Russell Mitford
As early as 1824 MRM
was asking the advice of friends as to whether they thought she could be a novelist.
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers.
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She added one of her frequent disclaimers: I write merely for remuneration...