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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Family and Intimate relationships	Violet Hunt	VH 's mother was the writer Margaret (Raine) Hunt , born on 14 October 1831. Her childhood home, Crook Hall in County Durham, was visited by Dorothy and William Wordsworth , John Ruskin ...
Family and Intimate relationships	Harriet Tytler	She and her Breton maid Marie were the only European women present during the siege of Delhi. When the time had come for women and children to leave, HT was too advanced in her pregnancy...
Family and Intimate relationships	Anne Grant	AG 's parents were married in 1753; they moved to Glasgow shortly afterwards. Wilson, James Grant, and Anne Grant. “Preface, Memoir of Mrs. Grant”. Memoirs of an American Lady, edited by James Grant Wilson and James Grant Wilson, Books for Libraries Press, p. ix - xxxvi. xiii Her mother, Catherine (Mackenzie) MacVicar , was a grand-daughter of the ancient family of Stewart, settled at Invernahyle in Argyllshire...
Family and Intimate relationships	Ellen Wood	EW 's father, Thomas Price , was a glove manufacturer. His grandson describes him as an unambitious and literary man, more fitted for a cathedral stall than the calling he had adopted, Wood, C. W. Memorials of Mrs. Henry Wood. R. Bentley and Son. 3 and as...
Family and Intimate relationships	George Eliot	One of her resources during his illness was reading to him from the works of Sir Walter Scott . Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton. 312
Family and Intimate relationships	Charlotte Stopes	Her other grandfather, William Carmichael , was a solicitor, or Writer to the Signet. In this capacity he assisted and then succeeded Sir Walter Scott . Maude, Aylmer. The Authorized Life of Marie C. Stopes. Williams and Norgate. 12
Family and Intimate relationships	Lady Charlotte Bury	Her second marriage shocked her friends and family, including her children. Although Bury was a clergyman from a good family, he had no fortune and was fifteen years younger than she was. Scott called him...
Family and Intimate relationships	Dorothea Du Bois	This most sensational trial of the mid-century was reported in detail by the Gentleman's Magazine the following year, and used in more or less avowed fictions by Eliza Haywood in Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young...
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...
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	Maria Edgeworth	ME formed warm friendships with Scott and his son-in-law J. G. Lockhart . Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon. 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	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. 98-9

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