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.
Its title-page quotes from Akenside
, but the tutelary genius of the novel is Shakespeare
, several of whose plays have left their mark on it. The story opens (recalling two of Mrs Ross
's...
Intertextuality and Influence
Marjorie Bowen
MB
recalls being influenced at an early age by her enjoyment of Tennyson
's Idylls of the King, Wilde
's Picture of Dorian Gray, the novels of Sir Walter Scott
, and Richardson
Intertextuality and Influence
Grace Aguilar
The central character is the undowered girl Florence Leslie—so called because of her birth in Italy—whose high-minded principles have been fuelled by indiscriminate
Aguilar, Grace. Woman’s Friendship. D. Appleton and Company.
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reading in history, poetry, and romance at an early age...
Intertextuality and Influence
Joanna Baillie
JB
says she took the topic of Witchcraft from a scene in Scott
's Bride of Lammermuir in which disgruntled old women wish the devil would give them a helping hand. (Scott does not mention...
Intertextuality and Influence
Harriet Martineau
Writing to Mary Russell Mitford
of her hope that they might meet, HM
acknowledged the influence which the spirit of your writings has had over me.
L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett.
One of her source texts was John Stockdale
's The History of the Inquisition, which like other English books on the topic was more concerned to demonstrate the dangers of Catholicism than the plight...
Intertextuality and Influence
Grace Aguilar
The martyr named in the title is a Spanish Jew named Marie, who refuses to convert despite her love for an English Catholic man, and the further inducements represented by the torture of the Inquisition
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
MEB
was encouraged to write from an early age, particularly by her mother. She would later recall how when she was eight and had just learned to write, her godfather bought her a beautiful brand...
Intertextuality and Influence
Marion Moss
Written as a challenge to anti-Semitism, MM
's fiction is set in the remote past as a way of explaining Jewish history, religion, and customs to English readers in much the same way Scottexplained...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
MEB
's Hostages to Fortune, also published in 1875, gives a more sustained view of the theatre milieu than did A Strange World. It tells the story of Herman Westray's struggle to succeed...
Intertextuality and Influence
Maria Theresa Longworth
Set during the Crimean War, the novel recounts the tragic love affair between the young nurse Thierna and Captain Cyril Etherington.
Rosenman, Ellen Bayuk. Unauthorized Pleasures. Cornell University Press.
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Longworth, Maria Theresa. Martyrs to Circumstance. R. Bentley.
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The events of the narrative recall those of MTL
's own...
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
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
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...
