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	Bessie Rayner Parkes	BRP taught herself to read. By the age of seven she had completed all of Scott 's novels. Crawford, Anne, editor. The Europa Biographical Dictionary of British Women. Europa Publications. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan. 265 She learnt both French and German with remarkable ease. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan. 265 She developed a passionate admiration, and...
Education	Emma Marshall	At a very early age Emma Martin could recite See'st thou my home is where yon woods are waving by Felicia Hemans . Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley. 8 After leaving school she continued to study music with Dr Zacariah or Zechariah Buck
Education	Frances Mary Peard	However, according to her biographer, Mary J. Y. Harris , she was largely self-taught. Her mother never restricted her reading, and she later remembered tackling at an early age such classics as Scott , Shakespeare
Education	Queen Victoria	Princess Alexandrina Victoria had begun reading her first novel, Sir Walter Scott 's Bride of Lammermoor; she remained an avid reader of novels throughout her life. Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row. 43
Education	A. S. Byatt	She was educated at Sheffield High School and, from 1949, at the Mount School in York, a Quaker boarding school where her mother had taught English. ASB felt awkward, anxious, and socially isolated at...
Education	Elinor Glyn	Since she abhorred her governesses, Elinor took her education into her own hands, reading every book she could in the library: Pepys 's diary, Cervantes ' Don Quixote (an eighteenth-century French version), Scott , Agnes
Education	Mary Elizabeth Braddon	Mary Elizabeth read early and voraciously, polishing off Anna Maria Hall 's three-volume Marian when she was only seven. By nine she was reading Scott and Dickens . One of the family servants introduced her...
Education	Marion Moss	Little is known is about MM 's formal education. However, according to critic Michael Galchinsky , her father entertained the family by reading romantic poetry as the women sat and sewed, including Byron 's Childe...
Education	Harriet Beecher Stowe	HBS 's domestic training consisted of learning knitting, sewing, and Presbyterian and Episcopal church catechisms from an aunt and grandmother who were skilled at weaving and embroidery. Hedrick, Joan. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. Oxford University Press. 12-13 Her father did not allow novels in...
Education	Winifred Peck	The young Knoxes had three governesses in two years, which later made WP feel guilty as she imagined these women weeping at night over the children's unruliness or the jealousy of the family nanny. Meanwhile...
Education	Charlotte Yonge	CY also learnt much on her own through reading widely in history, and classical and contemporary literature. She greatly admired Walter Scott . Hayter, Alethea. Charlotte Yonge. Northcote House. 38-9
Education	Clara Codd	CC never went to school; instead, she and her sisters were taught by a series of governesses who she never loved. Codd, Clara. So Rich a Life. Caxton Limited. 6 Her education was not particularly religious: she was not exposed to Bible...
Education	Ellen Johnston	She was largely self-taught, and by the age of thirteen had her imagination fired by reading Wilson 's Tales of the Borders and many of Walter Scott 's novels. Johnston, Ellen. Autobiography, Poems, and Songs. William Love. 7
Education	Winifred Peck	It was probably Mary A. Marzials ' anthology Gems of English Poetry which made poetry the only lesson the Knoxes disliked. Winifred felt that Hemans 's boy on the burning deck cut a poor figure...
Education	Mary Augusta Ward	On her arrival in Oxford, her father became to some extent interested in her education, enrolling her for music lessons with the organist James Taylor , and having her copy work for him. He provided...

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By 20 February 1908

K. L. Montgomery dedicated their historicalnovelColonel Kate to Sir Walter Scott .

1920

The number of Miners' Institutes (which included Miners' Libraries ) increased following the decision regularly to supplement the levy financing them from the national Miners' Welfare Fund .

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