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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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	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	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	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...
Literary responses	Anne Bannerman	The notice in the Critical Review was uncomplimentary, dismissing her as an imitator of Scott , John Leyden , and William Wordsworth . Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 38 (1803): 110ff Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press, 1999. 143 The Poetical Register praised the volume for poetical...
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 Setting	Catherine Gore	The title-page quotes and very slightly alters four lines from Pope beginning What gay ideas crowd the vacant brain, Gore, Catherine. Mothers and Daughters. Bentley, 1849. title-page but whereas Pope's imaginary Teresa Blount was daydreaming idly and innocently of the dukes and...
Material Conditions of Writing	Iris Murdoch	Though she was a contented only child, IM said that the impulse to create imaginary siblings was the thing that first inspired her to write. In her teens she was a leading contributor to the...
names	Joanna Baillie	Walter Scott teased her about her taking up in her fifties the style of Mrs. (This had earlier been universal for older unmarried women, as a mark of respect; it was now becoming limited...
names	Christian Isobel Johnstone	BirthName: Christian Isobel Tod or Todd Perkins, Pamela. Women Writers and the Edinburgh Enlightenment. Rodopi, 2010. 209 Married: McLiesh or McLeish; Johnstone Pseudonyms: The Author of Clan-Albin; Aunt Jane; Margaret Dods She took this name from a novel by Sir Walter Scott .
Occupation	Elizabeth Siddal	ES was preparing illustrations for ballads by William Allingham ; she also worked on engravings for texts by Wordsworth , Scott , Tennyson , and Browning . Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989. 66
Occupation	Caroline Scott	CS became a painter and musician of some accomplishment. According to Lady Louisa Stuart she called her drawings dark-coloured, [her] music touching, and [her] style pathetic. Stuart, Lady Louisa, and J. Steven Watson. Memoire of Frances, Lady Douglas. Editor Rubenstein, Jill, Scottish Academic Press, 1985. 100 Three years before she was married she produced...
Occupation	Barbara Pym	This work gave her considerable free time, most of which she spent reading such authors as Austen , Johnson , Scott , and Trollope . She particularly admired the forms of Mansfield 's published scrapbook...

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