Sir Walter Scott

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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.
  • BirthName: Walter Scott
  • Nickname: The Great Unknown
  • Titled: Sir
    Scott was knighted in 1820.

Milestones

15 August 1771

Walter Scott , the future poet and novelist, was born in Edinburgh.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.

24 February 1802-November 1803

Walter Scott edited and published Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, a collection of historical, traditional and romantic ballads, with imitations.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 39(1803): 250-9
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

7 July 1814

Walter Scott caused a sensation with Waverley, his first novel, a historical work published anonymously with a dedication to the sentimental novelist Henry Mackenzie .
Manning, Susan. “Julie de Roubigné: Last Gasp, or First Fruits?”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2001, pp. 161-73.
164

1832

In the year that he died, Sir Walter Scott , pseudonymously (as Jedediah Cleishbotham), published Count Robert of Paris with Castle Dangerous, in the fourth and last series of Tales of My Landlord.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.

21 September 1832

SWS died at his estate of Abbotsford, Melrose, following paralysis and a bout of apoplexy; he was sixty-one.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Biography

Birth, Success

15 August 1771

Walter Scott , the future poet and novelist, was born in Edinburgh.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.