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.

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Literary responses Anne Marsh
Chorley 's Athenæum review is remarkable for two things: for the vehemence with which he praised the novel's plotting and the climactic scene of preparations for the wedding (which he quoted at length, only regretting...
Literary responses Harriette Wilson
Contemporary admirers of HW on literary grounds included Walter Scott , who praised her dialogue and intelligence, and thought her out and out
qtd. in
Thirkell, Angela. The Fortunes of Harriette. Hamish Hamilton, 1936.
218
a better writer than Teresia Constantia Phillips or others in the...
Literary responses Emma Robinson
The Athenæum (again in the person of Henry Chorley , again reviewing ER as a male author), said she was still improving. Despite the difficulties posed by handling such well-known material, in this novel the...
Literary responses Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan
The review in the Critical made nostalgic reference to pleasure in Morgan's The Wild Irish Girl, and continued: As a national writer, we cannot too much admire her sentiments; and, as a descriptive writer...
Literary responses Maria Edgeworth
Walter Scott 's praise of ME 's admirable Irish portraits
Scott, Sir Walter. Waverley. Editor Lamont, Claire, Oxford University Press, 1986.
341
in Waverley (July 1814) must have been useful publicity. Scott expanded his praise in his edition of 1829
Scott, Sir Walter. Waverley. Editor Lamont, Claire, Oxford University Press, 1986.
352-3
Literary responses Felicia Hemans
Appreciation of FH was slowly growing. Following on the positive responses from Scott and Byron , in October 1820John Taylor Coleridge in the influential Quarterly Review (published by John Murray , her own publisher)...
Literary responses Margaret Holford
She was very disappointed when Scott never acknowledged this tribute. After Wallace appeared, Joanna Baillie wrote to him reminding him of this lapse in manners and implicitly that it was his own fault that Wallace...
Literary responses Anna Seward
The Horatian odes received in London literary circles such warm approbation that the poet could not listen with undelighted ears.
qtd. in
Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931.
145
Walter Scott however, despite the invocation of Dryden and Pope, argued that as paraphrase...
Literary responses Jane Austen
Sir Walter Scott recorded in his journal on 14 March 1826 a judgement which has become famous: read again, and for the third time at least, Miss Austen's very finely written novel of Pride and...
Literary responses Jane West
Unlike JW 's two previous works, this one was reviewed in the Quarterly Magazine and elsewhere.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 373
David Thame believes that this and West's next novel represent a substantial change of register from gossiping...
Literary responses Margaret Holford
Walter Scott never answered when Holford sent him a copy of Wallace for comment, and was apparently scathing about the poem in remarks made privately to Joanna Baillie.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
1: 328
Early the next year Baillie
Literary responses Susan Ferrier
Clavering urged SF not to alter (presumably not to tone down) her Lady McLaughlan portrait. The novel's immediate success was crucially boosted by the praise of Sir Walter Scott . SF read it aloud to...
Literary responses Jane Austen
Emma received eight reviews in English: more than any other Austen novel. Murray sounded apologetic as he invited Walter Scott to review it (It wants incident and romance does it not?).
qtd. in
Tomalin, Claire. Jane Austen: A Life. Penguin Viking, 1997.
252
For...
Literary responses Margaret Holford
Elizabeth Isabella Spence praised this poem in print not long after its appearance (though she conceded that its view of Wallace was not so accurate as that of Jane Porter 's almost contemporaneous rendering in...
Literary responses Henrietta Rouviere Mosse
George Saintsbury found the title ridiculous and the novel worthy of the title. He blamed it for blocks of spiritless and commonplace historic narrative, and for such anachronisms the gentle and elegant heroine being educated...

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