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.
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was introduced as a young woman into the Bluestocking circle. Her friendship with the younger Louisa Clinton
produced some attractive letters and that with Frances, Lady Douglas
, produced a remarkable memoir. Lady Douglas's...
Textual Production
Lady Louisa Stuart
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expressed decorous dismay when her friend Sir Walter Scott
made public her authorship of the comic and outspoken ballad Ugly Meg.
Textual Features
Lady Louisa Stuart
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's letters to Scott
show her to have been a trusted and perceptive critic of his novels, which she often read before publication. On The Heart of Mid-Lothian she sent him a major critique...
Literary responses
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
The review in the Critical made nostalgic reference to pleasure in Morgan's The Wild Irish Girl, and continued: As a national writer, we cannot too much admire her sentiments; and, as a descriptive writer...
Literary responses
Jemima Tautphoeus
The novel was very popular in both England and Bavaria. The general view was that there is no novel . . . in which the epithet charming could be applied with more strict propriety...
Textual Features
Elizabeth Thomas
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...
Textual Production
Flora Thompson
The origin of the title has not been established: it may have come from Sir Walter Scott
's Peveril of the Peak, or from any one of the several place-names in which this element...
Education
Annie Tinsley
She was also taught, perhaps between schools, by her father. By the age of eleven she had devoured the poetry of the British Classics from Chaucer
to Beattie
,
Peet, Henry. Mrs. Charles Tinsley, Novelist and Poet. Butler and Tanner.
Following this initial encounter, the two formerly isolated girls bonded over shared interests in Scott
, Baudelaire
, Dumas
, Rostand
's Cyrano de Bergerac, and their own pedigrees.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin.
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Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo.
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Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton.
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Education
Susan Tweedsmuir
She was, however, always reading as a child: she and her sister had few books, but knew by heart whole chapters of the ones they did have. As a child Susan hated Mrs Mortimer
's...
Family and Intimate relationships
Harriet Tytler
She and her Breton maid Marie were the only European women present during the siege of Delhi. When the time had come for women and children to leave, HT
was too advanced in her pregnancy...
Education
Sarah Tytler
From a young age Henrietta Keddie (later ST
) loved to read, and one of her earliest memories was being introduced by her father to the town's only bookseller as my little girl who is...
Literary responses
Anna Jane Vardill
In September 1819 the European Magazine carried a poem in praise of AJV
, in which various Muses compete for possession of her.
Axon, William E. A., and Ernest Hartley Coleridge. “Anna Jane Vardill Niven, the Authoress of ’Christobell,’ the Sequel to Coleridge’s ’Christabel.’ With a Bibliography. With an Additional Note on ’Christabel’”. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, Vol.
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.
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Leisure and Society
Queen Victoria
Among her favourite writers were Alfred Tennyson
, Sir Walter Scott
, George Eliot
(whose The Mill on the Floss made a deep impression
Victoria, Queen. Queen Victoria in Her Letters and Journals. Editor Hibbert, Christopher, Penguin.
