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William Wallace
Standard Name: Wallace, William,, d. 1305
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Jane Porter | Their mother, when she was widowed, moved her family to Edinburgh in 1780, partly for the sake of the future advantage of a good education at a moderate expense. In Scotland, wrote JP
later, a... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Eglinton Wallace | The Annual Register reported the wedding as on 14 August 1772. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Doreen Wallace | DW
was proud of her forebears, who included not only the Scottish national hero William Wallace
but also Frances Dunlop
(friend of Robert Burns
and patron of the labouring-class poet Janet Little
— Shepherd, June. Doreen Wallace, 1897-1989: Writer and Social Campaigner. Edwin Mellen Press, 2000. xxiii |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Welsh Carlyle | JWC
's mother, Grace Welsh
, had the same birth and married names; yet she was no relation of her husband. Her family considered themselves descendants of the Scots national hero William Wallace
. Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. AMS Press, 1967, 12 vols. 8: 229 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Holford | Margaret Holford the younger
scored her greatest success with her anonymous: Wallace
, or, The Fight of Falkirk, a historical verse romance inspired by Walter Scott
's Marmion, 1808. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Literary Setting | Jane Porter | JP
's original introduction (to which she later added further memories of colourful Scots characters from her childhood in Edinburgh) mentions exhaustive consultation of historians, and makes no direct allusion to the verse romance... |
| Publishing | Eglinton Wallace | EW
dated the postscript to her Letter from Lady W-ll-ce, to Captain —, of which a second edition appeared later the same year as Letter from Lady Wallace, to Capt. William Wallace
aid de... |
| Publishing | Felicia Hemans | FH
's poem The Meeting of Wallace
and Bruce
on the Banks of the Carron, which won a prize of £50, appeared in Blackwood's. It was later printed separately as Wallace's Invocation to Bruce, A Poem. Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, 1839, pp. 1-315. 31-2 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Textual Production | Eglinton Wallace | |
| Textual Production | Jane Porter | JP
scored another great success with a new historical novel, The Scottish Chiefs, which features particularly the thirteenth-century patriot William Wallace
. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 2: 329 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
| Textual Production | Grace Aguilar | Fifty years after her death, Routledge
printed two early Tales from British History by Grace Aguilar
: Macintosh, the Highland Chief, a Tale of the Civil War, and Edmund
, the Exiled Prince, and... |
| Textual Production | Grace Aguilar | By 1833 she had also finished the two books which were eventually published in 1908 as Tales from British History, individually titled Macintosh, the Highland Chief, a Tale of the Civil War, and... |
| Textual Production | Joanna Baillie | After JB
's visit to Scotland, she published Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters, which included poems on William Wallace
and the woman she calls Lady Griseld Baillie
. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols. 1: 168 Dowd, Maureen A. “’By the Delicate Hand of a Female’: Melodramatic Mania and Joanna Baillie’s Spectacular Tragedies”. European Romantic Review, Vol. 9 , No. 4, 1998, pp. 469-00. 492n28 Quarterly Review. J. Murray. 24 (1821): 572 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Florence Dixie | The poems represent several distinct genres: heroic historical poems, like The Death of Robespierre, a tale of Nigel Bruce (brother of Robert the Bruce
), and a death-song for another Scots hero, Wallace
... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eglinton Wallace | It was daring for a woman to claim the public role of adviser to a military man, even when he was a son newly entered on the great stage of life. Wallace, Eglinton. Letter from Lady Wallace to Capt. William Wallace. J. Debrett, 1792. 1 |
Timeline
22 July 1298: The English-Welsh army of Edward I, having...
National or international item
22 July 1298
The English-Welsh army of Edward I
, having been lured dangerously deep into an already devastated Scottish countryside offering no sustenance, attacked the Scots under William Wallace
at Falkirk.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Wallace
11 September 1298: William Wallace, fighter for the independence...
National or international item
11 September 1298
William Wallace
, fighter for the independence from England of Scotland (invaded in 1296 by Edward I
), won the victory of Stirling Bridge on the edge of Stirling, the narrow wooden structure giving...
1838: Miss Gordon in A Guide to the Genealogical...
Women writers item
1838
Miss Gordon in A Guide to the Genealogical Chart of English and Scottish History, published this year, set out to prove Queen Victoria
's Scottish ancestry.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Gordon, Miss. A Guide to the Genealogical Chart of English and Scottish History. 2nd ed., John Souter, 1838, p. 60 pp.
The Bodleian
catalogue ascribes this to L. Gordon.
25 February 1914: Ethel Moorhead, a Dundee suffragist renowned...
National or international item
25 February 1914
Ethel Moorhead
, a Dundee suffragist renowned for daring acts of militancy, was released from Calton Gaol in Edinburgh after forcible feeding (the first of suffragists in Scotland) gave her double pneumonia.
Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge, 2001.
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