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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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Mary Russell Mitford
MRM was working on this poem by July 1810.
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...
Textual Production 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...
Textual Production 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
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
Here she expounds her method of teaching her grandchildren [or step-grandchildren] through play, and features acute critical comment on female writers for children. In particular, she makes detailed, intelligent criticism of Maria Edgeworth 's children's...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sarah Green
M. G. Lewis is a more complicated case, treated with some nuance. SG admires The Monk but feels that after that Lewis's real talent was obscured by the baneful influence of German fiction: she agrees...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Susanna Watts
This includes poems on Elizabeth Heyrick , William Cowper , and Sir Walter Scott , A Prayer: for the Slaves, Delicacy: Inscribed to the Ladies, several of natural description, and yet others on...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Margaret Emily Shore
The diary provides a full and vivid account of girlhood in the years leading up to Victoria 's reign, in addition to musings on familial and personal topics. It contains substantial literary criticism, such as...
Travel Maria Jane Jewsbury
MJJ travelled to Edinburgh, where she met Walter Scott .
Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell.
28
Travel Maria Edgeworth
ME spent two weeks at Abbotsford in Melrose with Sir Walter Scott and his family.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
418
Travel Maria Edgeworth
ME (with all her writing about Ireland long behind her) visited Killarney in County Kerry with Sir Walter Scott and J. G. Lockhart .
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
215, 420
Travel Sara Coleridge
In her years growing up, SC frequently visited the William WordsworthWordsworth family at Rydal Mount.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press.
24
Her father's home was frequented by notable guests including Francis Jeffrey , Thomas De Quincey , Charles Lamb ,...
Travel Felicia Hemans
FH took the first of two trips to Scotland, where she made a visit like an old familiar friend
Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, pp. 1-315.
180
with Sir Walter Scott . She also met Francis Jeffrey , who significantly shaped...
Travel Cecil Frances Alexander
During her youth, the future CFA traveled to Edinburgh where she met Sir Walter Scott , and watched the famous Scottish landscape painter, Rev. John Thomson , brother to her uncle Thomas Thomson , at...
Travel Elizabeth Isabella Spence
Her more northerly Scottish journey took her in summer 1816 from the painfully Scottish-associated Flodden Field in Northumberland (no doubt with Scott 's Marmion in mind) to further informative sojourns in Edinburgh and Glasgow...
Wealth and Poverty Anne Marsh
Their move back to England was facilitated by a legacy of £5,000 from Anne's father.
Heath-Caldwell, J. J. “Letters, References and Notes (1780-1874), Relating to James Caldwell and Anne Marsh (Marsh-Caldwell)”. Ancestors and Relatives of JJ Heath-Caldwell.
1839-1842
They bought the estate the previous year for £13,000 (including standing timber worth £3,280). AM sold the house, estate...

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