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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Friends, Associates	Alison Cockburn	She wrote that some of my most steady friends thro' Life were my childhood companions, girls she had been at school with. Cockburn, Alison. Letters and Memoirs. Editor Craig-Brown, Thomas, David Douglas, 1900. 2 Besides Ramsay (whom, too, she had known since her girlhood), Burns
Friends, Associates	Martin Ross	She was amused at his appearance and manner: her likening him to a Walter Scott character might particularly have displeased him. He looked a cross between a Dominie Sampson and a starved R. C. curate...
Friends, Associates	Mary Bryan	MB approached Sir Walter Scott on 10 June 1818, seeking the furtherance of her literary career. The extant correspondence spans nine years. His side does not survive, and there is no evidence that they ever...
Friends, Associates	Anna Maria Porter	The young Walter Scott was a neighbour of the Porters in Edinburgh and a childhood friend to AMP and Jane. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992. 265 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989. under Jane Porter In London while Anna Maria was growing up, and even after...
Friends, Associates	Maria Edgeworth	ME formed warm friendships with Scott and his son-in-law J. G. Lockhart . Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972. 418-20
Friends, Associates	Susan Ferrier	SF and her father made a visit, which was her first, to Walter Scott at Ashistiel (his estate near Selkirk), when he was an eminent poet but not yet a novelist. They had stormy...
Friends, Associates	Felicia Hemans	While in Scotland she met not only Scott and Jeffrey , she met in person her publisher William Blackwood , writer Anne Grant , critic John Wilson , and sculptor Angus Fletcher . Lawrence, Rose. The Last Autumn at a Favorite Residence, with Other Poems. G. and J. Robinson, etc. and John Murray, 1836. 347 Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, 1839, pp. 1-315. 201
Friends, Associates	Margaret Holford	Holford seems to have cared about making influential friends, and succeeded in doing so although she lived in the provinces. She established a correspondence with Sir Walter Scott , and although their relationship got off...
Friends, Associates	Lucy Aikin	LA , dining with Walter Scott , was pleased that though she herself went unnoticed, Scott devoted considerable attention to her aunt Barbauld . Aikin, Lucy. Memoirs, Miscellanies and Letters. Editor Le Breton, Philip Hemery, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864. 98-9
Friends, Associates	Maria Jane Jewsbury	Determined to be a writer, MJJ actively sought literary society. Her other literary friends included author and editor Samuel Laman Blanchard , dramatist James Robinson Planché , the Rev. George Robert Gleig , and Sir Walter Scott
Friends, Associates	Anna Eliza Bray	This brief marriage brought Anna Eliza a number of literary friendships: with Sir Walter Scott , Amelia Opie , Letitia Elizabeth Landon , John Murray , Robert Southey , and later with Southey's second wife,...
Friends, Associates	Dorothea Primrose Campbell	DPC corresponded with Walter Scott , who offered moral and some material support. Scott, Sir Walter. “Papers of Sir Walter Scott”. MSS 3278. 102, 3888.20, 3890. 89, 208, 261, National Library of Scotland, 1817.
Friends, Associates	Anne Grant	In the spring of 1809, AG went to Edinburgh in search of a house. Invited to her home by the Duchess of Gordon , she met there Sir Walter Scott . Around the same time...
Friends, Associates	Anna Seward	In her last years AS availed herself of the services of a Miss Fern as a (presumably paid) companion. Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931. 244-6 She had struck up an acquaintance with the young Walter Scott (who sent some of...
Friends, Associates	Cecil Frances Alexander	The writers whom CFA most admired during her childhood were Scott , Gray , and, to a lesser extent, Wordsworth and Byron . Alexander, Cecil Frances. “Preface”. Poems, edited by William, 1824 - 1911 Alexander, Macmillan, 1896, p. v - xxix. xxiii Around 1833, Cecil Frances Humphreys came into contact with a significant...

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