Sir Walter Scott

15 August 1771 - 21 September 1832

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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Education	Emily Hickey	She demonstrated an early interest in reading. Scott , Tennyson , and Barrett Browning numbered among her early favourites. Her father, however, did not allow her to read Shakespeare , as he was repelled by...
Education	Mary Louisa Molesworth	Educated privately at home, MLM could not remember a time before she could read, nor any time when reading stories was not my greatest delight. Green, Roger Lancelyn. Mrs. Molesworth. Bodley Head. 21 She began formal learning with her mother. She read...
Education	Mary Gawthorpe	One of the poems MG had to learn for recitation was Meddlesome Matty by Ann Taylor (later Gilbert) . Gawthorpe, Mary. Up Hill to Holloway. Traversity Press. 47 (MG thought it was by the other sister, and later regretted that she never...
Education	Christina Rossetti	Christina and her siblings were educated by their mother , in reading, writing, the Bible and rudimentary French. The boys were sent to school when they were seven, while the girls continued at home. Their...
Education	Kate Chopin	Following her father's death, her education was supplemented by her maternal great-grandmother Victoire Verdon Charleville , who placed a particular emphasis on French and music.The young Kate O'Flaherty was also a voracious reader, and enjoyed...
Education	Sarah Grand	There she read authors such as Dickens , Scott , and Thackeray . Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge. 253 She took advantage of the cultivated atmosphere in which she grew up, and yet later judged that she had been neither...
Education	Anne Manning	AM was taught at home by both her mother and her father, with the help of masters for special accomplishments, Oliphant, Margaret et al. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria’s Reign. Hurst and Blackett. 211 and for a short time by a governess. Charlotte Yonge , who wrote of...
Education	Mary Sewell	At the age of fifteen she ceased regular study, and began reading on her own. She spent much of the time at Friends ' meetings going over passages from Byron , Southey , Moore ...
Education	Mary Gawthorpe	Apprenticeship included some part-time attendance at the Pupil-Teacher Centre in the LeedsSchool Board offices. There MG continued with largely the same subjects as at school, with the addition of French, educational theory, psychology, and...
Education	John Ruskin	Taught at home until the age of fourteen by his parents and private tutors, JR developed his drawing, and received an education that encouraged a love of Romantic Literature (including Byron , Wordsworth , and...
Family and Intimate relationships	Alison Cockburn	AC was both a cousin, through her mother, and a great-aunt, through one of her sisters, of Walter Scott . First meeting him when she was in her sixties and he was not yet six...
Family and Intimate relationships	Mary Webb	MW 's mother, Sarah Alice Meredith , claimed relationship with Sir Walter Scott , whose surname was her birth name. She set great store by the idea of duty, but seems to have become withdrawn...
Family and Intimate relationships	Caroline Scott	Her mother, Frances, Lady Douglas , had had a deeply unhappy childhood, since her own mother appeared to entertain for her nothing but dislike and contempt, and treated her in a way that appears to...
Family and Intimate relationships	Margaret Calderwood	MC 's mother, born Anne Dalrymple and by marriage Lady Steuart, was one of the youngest of a large family, and described as witty and beautiful. She was a niece of Janet Dalrymple who was...
Family and Intimate relationships	Violet Trefusis	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. 23 Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo. 72-3 Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton. 27

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