Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
MO
attacks the sensation novel, a genre of fiction which she judges to be low in subject-matter (especially in its handling of sexual material), low in class connotations, and associated chiefly with women. Her idea...
Textual Features
Margaret Oliphant
This novel relates to her earlier Hester, 1883 and Joyce, 1888. Kirsteen's brutal father (who has been manager of a slave plantation, and goes as far as killing to impose his will on...
Textual Features
Rosamund Marriott Watson
Betty Barnes, The Book Burner was probably inspired by Walter Scott
's account of a cook who used her employer's manuscript collection to fuel a fire and line pie-tins.
Blain, Virginia, editor. Victorian Women Poets: A New Annotated Anthology. Longman.
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Other titles in this volume...
Residence
Alison Cockburn
As a widow living in EdinburghAC
was, according to Sarah Tytler
and Jean L. Watson
, a lively cultural influence, serving as a connecting-link between the Edinburgh of Allan Ramsay
and Burns
, and...
Escreet, J. M. The Life of Edna Lyall. Longmans, Green and Co.
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with her sister and her brother-in-law the Rev. Hampden Jameson
. Their house in College Road, Eastbourne, was a picturesque gabled, red-tiled house, covered with...
Reception
Jane Porter
The ODNB judged the London scenes (where the hero is living privately in London and trying to make a living out of selling his painting) the most convincing in the book.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
AG
's reputation was such (after the publication of the Memoirs of an American Lady) that she was one of those confidently stated to be the author of Scott
's Waverley when that novel...
Reception
Felicia Hemans
FH
's circulation in her lifetime rivalled that of her most prominent male contemporaries. With sales of about 18,000 volumes, she outsold Coleridge
and Wordsworth
, if not Scott
and Byron
. She proved, as...
Reception
Elizabeth Siddal
He also nicknamed her Ida after Tennyson
's heroine in The Princess, and compared her pride to that of Scott
's Flora MacIvor.
Marsh, Jan. Elizabeth Siddal, 1829-1862: Pre-Raphaelite Artist. The Ruskin Gallery.
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Reception
Lady Charlotte Bury
Walter Scott
used verses by her to head a chapter in The Heart of Midlothian, 1818.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
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Reception
Alice Dixon Le Plongeon
The The Brooklyn Daily Eagle likened its style to that of Sir Walter Scott
's The Lady of the Lake. This notice is more summary than review, but it notes: So far as possible...
Reception
Emily Frederick Clark
From EFC
's letters to the Royal Literary Fund
it would seem that she entertained a very modest estimate of her own talents. Late in her career, for example, she calls her own works very...
Reception
Catherine Fanshawe
Anne Grant reported that Francis Jeffrey
was much struck by a critique of Scott
's The Lady of the Lake (published months earlier) that CF
had written in a letter to Grant.
Grant, Anne. Memoir and Correspondence of Mrs. Grant of Laggan. Editor Grant, John Peter, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.
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Reception
Carol Ann Duffy
The year following her Selected Poems, CAD
won the Lannan Literary Award in the USA, and her work was included in the second volume of Penguin Modern Poets. A decade after that,...
Reception
Celia Moss
Galchinsky
suggests that in Westernising their tales the Mosses sought to engender greater sympathy from non-Jewish readers, a motive the Athenæum also acknowledges. Galchinsky argues further that the sisters' appropriation of the romance genre, in...
