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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Education	Charlotte Yonge	CY also learnt much on her own through reading widely in history, and classical and contemporary literature. She greatly admired Walter Scott . Hayter, Alethea. Charlotte Yonge. Northcote House, 1996. 38-9
Education	Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda	Taught by governesses until she was thirteen, Margaret Haig Thomas learned to read at about five. She was taught German and French, and she also learned Welsh as a child but did not retain it...
Education	Florence Dixie	Lady Florence was at first educated at home in Scotland. After a first, unsuccessful attempt to place her in a convent she had, in France, an Irish Catholic governess whom she calls Miss O'Leary...
Education	Sarah Grand	There she read authors such as Dickens , Scott , and Thackeray . Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge, 2000. 253 She took advantage of the cultivated atmosphere in which she grew up, and yet later judged that she had been neither...
Education	Pauline Johnson	PJ was educated at home first by her mother , who introduced her to the English Romantics. She was also taught by a governess in her early years. Chiefswood was full of books, and she...
Education	Maria Theresa Longworth	MTL was educated in France at an Ursuline convent school. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements. She later undertook further study in Italy. She consequently became familiar with both French and Italian. Rosenman, Ellen Bayuk. Unauthorized Pleasures. Cornell University Press, 2003. 137 Erickson, Arvel B., and John R. McCarthy. “The Yelverton Case: Civil Legislation and Marriage”. Victorian Studies, Vol. 14 , 1971, pp. 275-91. 275 From her writings it is clear...
Education	Lydia Maria Child	At fifteen she read Paradise Lost (with her brother's encouragement) and was delighted with its grandeur and sublimity, but was bold enough to criticise Milton for assert[ing] the superiority of his own sex in rather...
Education	Harriet Shaw Weaver	HSW 's family encouraged her in the regular pursuits of a young, middle-class Victorian woman. From her father she inherited an enthusiasm for poetry—she especially liked Shakespeare , Coleridge , and Whitman —and she read...
Education	Frances Browne	FB 's blindness meant that she did not have a formal education, and she very early felt the want of it. qtd. in Browne, Frances. The Star of Attéghéi; the Vision of Schwartz; and Other Poems. Edward Moxon, 1844. ix From the age of seven, when she heard a sermon she did not...
Education	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	Conan Doyle, later SACD , attended private schools (paid for by uncles, not his parents), latterly as a boarder at Stonyhurst College , a Jesuit-run, Roman Catholic public school in England. He acquired a passion...
Education	Elma Napier	In spite of the fact that her family did not value literature as much as games, and that her mother had specific ideas about what girls should read, EN devoured every book she could get...
Education	Kate Chopin	Following her father's death, her education was supplemented by her maternal great-grandmother Victoire Verdon Charleville , who placed a particular emphasis on French and music.The young Kate O'Flaherty was also a voracious reader, and enjoyed...
Education	Beatrix Potter	Beatrix, educated at home and six years older than her brother, was a solitary child. She had few toys; but she became deeply interested in science, and was also, from an early age, devoted to...
Education	Matilda Betham-Edwards	Because of her mother's early death, MBE , she said later, was largely self-educated, her teachers being plenty of the best books. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893. 124 Apart from the family library, a half-guinea annual subscription to the Ipswich Mechanics' Institution
Education	Fanny Kemble	Fanny's reading here was important to her. She later regarded her close knowledge of the Bible as the greatest benefit I derived from my school training, Kemble, Fanny. Records of a Girlhood. Henry Holt, 1879. 81 though she condemned the writings of Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis

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By 20 February 1908

K. L. Montgomery dedicated their historical novel Colonel Kate to Sir Walter Scott .

OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

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.

TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.

319 (20 February 1908): 61

1920

The number of Miners' Institutes (which included Miners' Libraries ) increased following the decision regularly to supplement the levy financing them from the national Miners' Welfare Fund .

Collini, Stefan. “The Cookson Story”. London Review of Books, 13 Dec. 2001, pp. 33-5.

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