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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Health | Mary Bryan | MB
(now Bedingfield) sent an anguished appeal to Scott
for an actual gift of money—fifteen pounds—to enable her to see a London specialist about her sight. Ragaz, Sharon. “Writing to Sir Walter: The Letters of Mary Bryan Bedingfield”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, No. 7, Dec. 2001. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Kelty | The book bears in various details the influence of Jane Austen
, though its overall project of pious didacticism is at odds with Austen's approach. The title-page quotes Rousseau
on the topic of the sensitive... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Loudon | In prose the opening tale, Julia de Clifford, presents a well-meaning but thoughtless and impulsive heroine who progresses from dressing up as a ghost to scare the servants, to plunging her lover into despair... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Louisa Anne Meredith | Most of the section called Poems, as well as some other pieces, describe flowers or other features of the natural world. Nature and poetry (which is celebrated in the opening Invocation to Song)... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Edgeworth | ME
's father, who admired her, wished to wring recognition for her from others. His efforts may well have been counter-productive. One result, even during her lifetime, was suspicion that he had written some parts... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Isabella Spence | The title-page quotes Burns
and Scott
. The preface remarks that books based on female impressions of national manners and moral character have succeeded in the past. Spence, Elizabeth Isabella. Sketches of the Present Manners, Customs, and Scenery of Scotland. 2nd ed., Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811, 2 vols. prelims iv |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Loudon | This strikingly inventive and ingenious tale seems to owe a good deal to Mary Shelley
's Frankenstein (though Shelley receives no tribute in passing, as do R. B. Sheridan
, Byron
, and especially Scott |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Bryan | Sir Walter Scott
had encouraged her from poetry into novel-writing. Unless the condition of her eyes improved miraculously during the sixteen months before publication, she must have composed by dictating to an amanuensis. Copies of... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Rosa Nouchette Carey | One of the many novels which RNC
chose to dignify by quotations to head her chapters, this seems to make a particular attempt to impress. Those quoted imply considerable learning, even if (as seems likely)... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Louisa Stuart Costello | Through her work on early French poetry LSC
became a friend of Sir Walter Scott
, who caused her to devote herself entirely to literature. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements. Both the original Dictionary of National Biography and its successor... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Isabella Spence | Spence's title-page bears a quotation from James Cririe
, a little-known Scots poet whom Burns had praised (and whom she cites several times later in her text). Perhaps for the sake of her original audience... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jane West | JW
's preface invokes Shakespeare
, Virgil
, Homer
, and Sir Walter Scott
(she later adds Thomas Percy
) as more acceptable exemplars for romance than either the French romances (implicitly those of Madeleine de Scudéry |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Cuthbertson | Walter Scott
was hunting for a copy of this book in about 1813, calling it a now-forgotten novel; qtd. in Garside, Peter. “Walter Scott and the ’Common’ Novel, 1808-1819”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, Vol. 3 , Sept. 1999. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Smythies | In a critical preface HS
reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford
or Edward Bulwer Lytton
). The two groups of lovers and... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ruby M. Ayres | Like her later novels, Richard Chatterton, V.C. is a courtship novel ending happily in marriage. Published only a year into the First World War, it is also an examination, albeit a shallow one, of... |
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