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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Occupation	Mary Bryan	Though literary historian Mary Waldron says that MB took on the running of the business herself, Waldron, Mary. Letter about Mary Bryan to Isobel Grundy. Bryan later told her prospective patron, Sir Walter Scott , that her father took on its management for her...
Occupation	Elizabeth Siddal	ES was preparing illustrations for ballads by William Allingham ; she also worked on engravings for texts by Wordsworth , Scott , Tennyson , and Browning . Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago. 66
Occupation	Elizabeth Siddal	After this show, Siddal's illustration of Scott 's Clerk Saunders was part of an exhibition that toured the United States; beyond these two instances, her work was never exhibited in her lifetime. Charles Eliot Norton
Occupation	Anne Bannerman	AB was instrumental in securing the papers of John Leyden (linguist, poet, and friend of Walter Scott , with whom she had had some kind of close relationship) for the use of James Morton ...
Occupation	Barbara Pym	This work gave her considerable free time, most of which she spent reading such authors as Austen , Johnson , Scott , and Trollope . She particularly admired the forms of Mansfield 's published scrapbook...
Occupation	Caroline Scott	CS became a painter and musician of some accomplishment. According to Lady Louisa Stuart she called her drawings dark-coloured, [her] music touching, and [her] style pathetic. Stuart, Lady Louisa, and J. Steven Watson. Memoire of Frances, Lady Douglas. Editor Rubenstein, Jill, Scottish Academic Press. 100 Three years before she was married she produced...
Occupation	Fanny Kemble	She toured England, Scotland, and Ireland with the Covent Garden Theatre company, met Walter Scott , and was feted by Lady Morgan in Dublin. Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 54-6 In May of 1831 she was presented...
names	Joanna Baillie	Walter Scott teased her about her taking up in her fifties the style of Mrs. (This had earlier been universal for older unmarried women, as a mark of respect; it was now becoming limited...
Material Conditions of Writing	Iris Murdoch	Though she was a contented only child, IM said that the impulse to create imaginary siblings was the thing that first inspired her to write. In her teens she was a leading contributor to the...
Literary Setting	Catherine Gore	The title-page quotes and very slightly alters four lines from Pope beginning What gay ideas crowd the vacant brain, Gore, Catherine. Mothers and Daughters. Bentley. title-page but whereas Pope's imaginary Teresa Blount was daydreaming idly and innocently of the dukes and...
Literary responses	Emily Lawless	The Literary World vividly likened experiencing this novel to reading the life of a past century by lightning flashes, and the half-blinded reader reads on and on and cannot stop or look away short of...
Literary responses	Mary Russell Mitford	Charles the First was received well by the Athenæum, which indicated that the performance provided genuine satisfaction to a very attentive audience and gratification in its most agreeable shape to the gifted lady, Athenæum. J. Lection. 349 (1834): 508
Literary responses	Rhoda Broughton	The Times marked RB 's death with an editorial asserting her permanent value as a novelist, Times. Times Publishing Company. (7 June 1920): 13 as well as with an obituary. The former commented that Broughton had made a sound...
Literary responses	Anne Grant	The pension was granted following the petition of Sir Walter Scott (who had praised her writing at the end of Waverley), Perkins, Pamela. “Anne Grant and the Professionalization of Privacy”. Authorship, Commerce and the Public: Scenes of Writing, 1750-1850, edited by Emma Clery et al., Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 29-43. 32 Francis Jeffrey , Henry Mackenzie , and others. At first AG rejected...
Literary responses	Felicia Hemans	Wordsworth in 1837 revised his existing Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg to include a stanza describing FH as that holy Spirit / Sweet as the spring, as ocean deep. Wordsworth, William. The Complete Poetical Works of Wordsworth. Editor George, Andrew J., Houghton Mifflin. 737 Although his...

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