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.
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...
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Augusta Ada Byron
As an adolescent Ada composed an essay on Sir Walter Scott
's Heart of Midlothian, and a handful of creative tales.
Woolley, Benjamin. The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason and Byron’s Daughter. Macmillan.
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Later she composed an essay on the imagination.
Woolley, Benjamin. The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason and Byron’s Daughter. Macmillan.
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Anna Gordon
Walter Scott
invited Robert Jamieson
for a visit during which they exchanged copies of ballads derived from two separate manuscripts of AG
's collection of ballads, bringing their joint stores to about fifty of her...
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Maria Edgeworth
ME
published three volumes of Tales of Fashionable Life, which Walter Scott
called a series of moral fictions.
McCormack, William John et al. “Introduction”. The Absentee, The World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, p. ix - xlvii.
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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...
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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
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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...
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...
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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
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Mary Bryan
MB
mentions in 1815 another work which she abandoned unfinished, on the grounds that some unnamed individuals might have had their feelings wounded by it.
Bryan, Mary, and Jonathan Wordsworth. Sonnets and Metrical Tales 1815. Woodstock Books.
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Soon afterwards, in 1818, she sent Sir Walter Scott
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Jackie Kay
JK
was one of twenty Scottish authors invited to contribute a monologue to a collaborative work entitled Dear Scotland, which was first performed by the Scottish National Theatre
on 24 April 2014 as a...
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Anna Seward
AS
's six-volume Letters . . . written between the years 1784 and 1807 were posthumously published: not edited by Scott
(as she had requested).
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
3d ser. 23 (1811): 112
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Sarojini Naidu
For SN
, writing began as an act of rebellion. She wrote her first poem at the age of eleven when she became frustrated with an algebra problem, and thereupon decided to become a poet....
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Mary Bryan
MB
's preface repeats an opinion she had already voiced in letters to Scott
: that the dominance of his novels had narrowed the opportunities for others. Its village setting, in and around Sidmouth on...
