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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Residence	Edna Lyall	EL moved from Lincoln to Eastbourne in 1884 Escreet, J. M. The Life of Edna Lyall. Longmans, Green and Co., 1904. 53 with her sister and her brother-in-law the Rev. Hampden Jameson . Their house in College Road, Eastbourne, was a picturesque gabled, red-tiled house, covered with...
Textual Features	Sarah Green	The plot owes something to Charlotte Lennox 's Female Quixote. The father of Green's heroine has lived through many crazes for novelists: first Burney , then Radcliffe , then Owenson , then Rosa Matilda
Textual Features	Rosamund Marriott Watson	Betty Barnes, The Book Burner was probably inspired by Walter Scott 's account of a cook who used her employer's manuscript collection to fuel a fire and line pie-tins. Blain, Virginia, editor. Victorian Women Poets: A New Annotated Anthology. Longman, 2001. 264 Other titles in this volume...
Textual Features	Lady Louisa Stuart	LLS 's letters to Scott show her to have been a trusted and perceptive critic of his novels, which she often read before publication. On The Heart of Mid-Lothian she sent him a major critique...
Textual Features	Elizabeth Strutt	The story's omniscient narrator offers historical explanations as the tale proceeds (noting, for instance, that women's status, unlike women's education, has not improved since the fourteenth century). ES says she hopes to encourage her readers...
Textual Features	Amy Levy	She continued: The Jew, as we know him to-day, with his curious mingling of diametrically opposed qualities; his surprising virtues and no less surprising vices; leading his eager, intricate life; living, moving, and having his...
Textual Features	Elizabeth Ham	This is perhaps the most remarkable fictional treatment of the general period of the 1798 Rebellion in Ireland. EH thus defends her once-controversial subject-matter, and her remarkable empathy with the rebels' position: the tale...
Textual Features	Ethel Savi	Writing of Savi's attempts to render Indian speech in English, critic Laxmi Moktali cites Sir Walter Scott 's introduction of Indian words about food and dress, for example, as the beginning of an experiment with...
Textual Features	J. S. Anna Liddiard	An advertisement apologises for William's temerity in handling a topic (the battle of Waterloo) already touched by a Master's hand (that of Walter Scott ). The table of contents names JSAL 's poem as...
Textual Features	Grace Aguilar	GA 's representation of Jews and Jewish history was profoundly influenced by novelists, pre-eminently Walter Scott , and by historians including Americans Washington Irving and William H. Prescott . Ragussis, Michael. Figures of Conversion: "The Jewish Question" and English National Identity. Duke University Press, 1995. 160
Textual Features	Emma Caroline Wood	The volume included selections from Byron , George Eliot , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Christina Rossetti , Sir Walter Scott , Alfred Lord Tennyson , Elizabeth Barrett Browning and William Wordsworth .
Textual Features	Elizabeth Fenton	Fenton sets out to paint a a familiar picture of the everyday occurrences, manners, and habits of life of persons undistinguished either by wealth or fame Fenton, Elizabeth. The Journal of Mrs. Fenton. Editor Lawrence, Sir Henry, Edward Arnold, 1901. 1-2 in British India. But this is largely unfulfilled...
Textual Features	Adelaide O'Keeffe	AOK 's unusual historical novel, which appeared several years before anything comparable by Sydney Morgan , Christian Isobel Johnstone , or Sir Walter Scott , seems to carry within itself the seeds of the national...
Textual Features	Mary Bryan	MB 's preface repeats an opinion she had already voiced in letters to Scott : that the dominance of his novels had narrowed the opportunities for others. Its village setting, in and around Sidmouth on...
Textual Features	Margaret Oliphant	MO attacks the sensation novel, a genre of fiction which she judges to be low in subject-matter (especially in its handling of sexual material), low in class connotations, and associated chiefly with women. Her idea...

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